Andrew Kaufman Quotes

As far as I can tell, you remain a mystery to yourself until the day you die.

Andrew Kaufman

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• People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Fashion
  • End

• Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • May
  • Foresight
  • Undoubtedly

• I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.

  

  Carl Spitteler
  • Left
  • August
  • Stayed

• I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Parent

• To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Work
  • American
  • True

• I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Up
  • Music
  • Working

• I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Science
  • Universe
  • Physics

• I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Actress

• There's a balance in my life. There's reality, and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • People
  • Life
  • Reality

• We really have to think of reasoning the way we think of romance, it takes two to tango. There has to be a communication.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Communication

• 美国垄断资本集团如果坚持推行它的侵略政策和战争政策，势必有一天要被全世界人民处以刑。其他美国帮凶也将是这样。

  

  Mao Zedong

• Our elders are always optimistic in their views of the present, pessimistic in their views of the future; youth is pessimistic toward the present and gloriously hopeful for the future.  And it is this hope which is the lever of progress-one might say, the only lever of progress.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Present

• Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Remember
  • High

• Ich überhaupt vielseitigkeit nicht recht mag, oder eigentlich nicht recht daran glaube. Was eigenthümlich, und schön, und groß sein soll, das muß einseitig sein.

  

  Felix Mendelssohn

• What I do is taking what they say and using it against them. What I do is jujitsu.

  

  Al Franken

• The scar of fire, the dint of steel,Are easier than Love's wounds to heal.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Fire

• Every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • People
  • She
  • Death

• I became an actor because I enjoy playing a variety of different people rather than playing one person for the rest of my career.

  

  Dominic Sherwood
  • People
  • Different
  • Career

• Winter is the king of showmen, Turning tree stumps into snowmen And houses into birthday cakes And spreading sugar over lakes. Smooth and clean and frosty white, The world looks good enough to bite. That’s the season to be young, Catching snowflakes on your tongue. Snow is snowy when it’s snowing, I’m sorry it’s slushy when it’s going.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • World
  • Good
  • King

• In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil war.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • War
  • Shadow

• I miss being able to play my instruments - I'm too much of a physical wreck these days. Playing the vibraphone gives me backache, leg ache, and everything-else ache, and the asthma means I no longer have enough puff to play harmonica.

  

  Kenny Baker

• Sometimes in the life of an actor you're not getting offered any jobs that speak to you. The trouble with acting is that you're only as good as your opportunities.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Actor
  • Trouble
  • Jobs

• As far as I can tell, you remain a mystery to yourself until the day you die.

  

  Andrew Kaufman
  • Die
  • Mystery
  • Remain