Barbara Holland Quotes

Sophistication called for a variety of talents and attitudes, but the minimum requirement was being in New York. Not all New Yorkers achieved it, but nobody elsewhere had a prayer.

Barbara Holland

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• I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Concentration
  • Equate
  • Pow

• I tell them the rules are made by the government. Every firm should comply. It doesn't mean they can't compete.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Government
  • Mean
  • Rules

• I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Like
  • Hip Hop

• I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • May
  • Poetry

• When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Grow

• The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Credit

• When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Heart
  • Football
  • Losing

• I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • School
  • High
  • Movies

• A lot of people are quite discouraged by the process of getting healthy because, one, they think they can't afford it, and two, it's daunting. I wanted to start a dialogue. Because you won't be able to even get there until you actually accept yourself and start connecting with yourself.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • People
  • Yourself
  • Start

• People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood.

  

  Omar Epps
  • People
  • Color
  • Brotherhood

• All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Wisdom
  • Does
  • Delhi

• An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it's their path, it's what excites them, it's what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • Work
  • Soul

• Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Goal
  • Path
  • Cheating

• I still love physical product. I still hold out for actual CDs, because in radio, everyone just wants to send you a file to play.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Play
  • Wants
  • Physical

• The Swiss can be very difficult.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Difficult
  • Very
  • Swiss

• There is nothing more worrisome to ISIS than cooperation between 'the West' and the Muslim world, for it defies the narrative of a clash of civilisations the group is trying to revive.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • World
  • Trying
  • Cooperation

• We have to understand that content is king now. And it doesn't matter what the source of the content and where it's coming from, as long as it is workable.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Long
  • King
  • Understand

• As Secretary of State, we need someone with sound judgment, ask tough questions, and should not be willing to just read talking points.

  

  John Barrasso

• From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.

  

  Adam Sedgwick
  • Up
  • Done
  • Why

• The streets of L.A. undulate over short hills as though a finger is poking the landscape from underneath ... laid over this crosshatch are streets meandering on the diagonal creating a multitude of ways to get from one place to another by traveling along the hypotenuse. These are the avenues of the tryst which enable Acting Student A to travel the eighteen miles across town to Acting Student B's garage apartment in nine minutes flat after a hot-blooded phone call at midnight.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Acting
  • Students
  • Hills

• For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Me
  • New
  • New York

• Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • City

• Sophistication called for a variety of talents and attitudes, but the minimum requirement was being in New York. Not all New Yorkers achieved it, but nobody elsewhere had a prayer.

  

  Barbara Holland
  • Prayer
  • New York
  • Achieved