Mordicai Gerstein Quotes

I almost always see what I didn't achieve, to a smaller or greater extent.

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• I think India is very passionate about films. It's almost a second religion back home. Due to that, I think film stars are - are really held in great esteem. Not that we're complaining, but I think with that comes a lot of responsibility.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Great
  • Home
  • Responsibility

• The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Heart
  • Think
  • Me

• Even before I did stand-up, I've always been the kind of guy - and I talk about it on stage - who says I like people and I always look for the good in people. I say, 'Every person has something good about them, if you can just find it.'

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Career
  • Fashion
  • Style

• I just want people to know they are the masters of their own fortune and misfortune. A lot of us think that doctors and drugs are going to control and help us, but the reality is we're our own best doctor.

  

  Dan Hill
  • People
  • Help
  • Reality

• My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Period
  • Professional
  • Intelligent

• I'm reticent to say much more, but we would like to begin in the coming year. We'd like to shoot through the seasons because of the passage of time. This project is the great love of my life.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• I am a lifelong Democrat.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Democrat
  • Lifelong

• I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about music? Normally, you can't say too much. There are a few really good ones, but the majorities are boring, I think.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Good
  • Music
  • Think

• I never talk about my opponent because I don't think it's my right to judge.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Think
  • Never
  • Judge

• The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Great
  • Think
  • Enthusiastic

• You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Work
  • Want
  • Sometimes

• I've learned after so many years in this business that nothing is set in stone until you're on set. I've been told I was the choice for years and never got hired. So I never go there in my mind.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Mind
  • Business
  • Choice

• I studied writing at NYU. I graduated high school in Nashville and then went to the creative writing program, and in the first year, that's when I wrote 'Kids.'

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Writing
  • School
  • Kids

• I like it when people make an effort to wear things that you wouldn't normally put together - I like eccentrics.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Together
  • Effort

• It's an advantage having a limited output. When George Gershwin is asked to play his repertoire, he plays all evening. I just play 'Lady Play Your Mandolin' and I'm through.

  

  Oscar Levant

• Weekends are about replenishment and rejuvenation. Time in Wales would definitely be part of my ideal weekend, at my own hotel, set in 72 acres of absolute gorgeousness. I can already feel the air working its magic, with the sea breeze drifting over us.

  

  Neil Morrissey
  • Time
  • Air
  • Magic

• This soft grass suggests 'softness' to me, but also at the same time 'lying-down-ness'.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Time
  • Lying
  • Grass

• I'm trying to make the readers feel as if he or she is right there in the conversation, and so I don't try to manipulate it too much.

  

  Susan Straight
  • Trying
  • Conversation
  • Readers

• Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • World
  • Mind
  • History

• When you're a writer, you know that a lot of times you have to sneak up on yourself in order to achieve what you want to achieve, and sometimes you don't even know what it is until you've done it.

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • Done
  • Sometimes
  • Achieve

• Strong Islamist trends make a fundamentalist Palestine more likely than a small state under a secular government.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Strong
  • Small
  • Government

• From whence it follows, that were the publique and private interest are most closely united, there is the publique most advanced.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Advanced
  • Private Interest
  • Publique

• I almost always see what I didn't achieve, to a smaller or greater extent.

  

  Mordicai Gerstein
  • Achieve
  • Greater
  • Extent