Reese Schonfeld (Maurice Wolfe Schonfeld) Quotes

The perception is that more important people watch news in the evenings than in the mornings.

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• The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Painting

• I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Israel
  • Critical
  • Policies

• I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Dream
  • Dreams
  • Stage

• With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on 'Oprah,' 'Fox News,' 'The Early Show,' and 'Good Morning America.' 'Oprah' was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short, you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Good
  • Long
  • Book

• I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Understand
  • Tea
  • Anger

• I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Women
  • Love
  • Death

• Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Life
  • Sense
  • Sorrow

• When I started performing in public, I was probably around 10 or 11.

  

  Patina Miller
  • Public
  • Performing
  • Started

• It was fortunate in looking back for South Africa and its entire people that Mandela and I found it possible to work together even though big strains developed between us from time to time.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I always root for the defense.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Always
  • Defense
  • Root

• How is it that in Ireland, where they never had any knowledge of God but, always, until now, cherished idols and unclean things, they are lately become a people of the Lord, and are called children of God; the sons of. the Irish and the daughters of the chieftains are to be seen as monks and virgins of Christ.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • People
  • God
  • Children

• The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.

  

  Edward de Bono
  • Thinking
  • Acceptance
  • Rejection

• Most men have nothing in their heads but their physical needs; put them on a desert island with nothing to occupy their minds and they would go insane. They lack real motive. The curse of civilization is boredom.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Men
  • Real
  • Desert

• When you first arrive in India, you think, 'God, these Indians treat their servants so badly! How awful!' It's something in the air, and something about the way people are, that very few people hold out. I wasn't able to. Everybody goes local. You stop saying 'thank you' and things like that.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • People
  • God
  • Stop

• I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.

  

  Donna Leon
  • Writing

• If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can call the soul. A collective component which is more archetypal and a deeper level, and then a universal domain of consciousness.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Soul

• No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany.

  

  Charles Lindbergh

• It's amazing, when the moment arrives that you know you'll be alright.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Moments
  • Knows
  • Alright

• I try and direct environmentally, so that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'action,' so that they can literally be swimming in the warm water, and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Free
  • Action

• Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Power
  • Passion
  • Forget

• Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Love
  • Laugh
  • Admire

• George W. Bush has dutifully, if not intentionally, provided Americans with laughs for nearly a decade. He has also made them cry, sometimes for the same reason.

  

  Alexandra Petri

• The perception is that more important people watch news in the evenings than in the mornings.

  

  Reese Schonfeld
  • Important
  • Perception
  • Watch