Charles Angoff Quotes

History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.

Charles Angoff

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• If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Time
  • Think
  • Period

• I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Learning
  • Survive
  • Adult

• When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Strength
  • Courtesy
  • Added

• What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Want
  • Crazy
  • Care

• Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Real
  • Past
  • Romantic

• I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Getting
  • Awards
  • Presents

• Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Think

• Tahir Pasha assigned me a room when I was staying in his residence, and every night before sleeping, I would spend around three hours going over the books I had memorized. It would take me three months to go through the lot. Thanks be to God, all those works became steps ascending to the truths of the Qur'an.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Night
  • Thanks

• I was just a mini-star when we did 'Gone With the Wind.'

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Star
  • Wind
  • Just

• This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • World
  • Different
  • Science

• Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • People
  • Nature
  • Question

• I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Important
  • Money

• This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected. And today, whenever I find myself feeling doubtful or cynical about this possibility, what gives me the most hope is the next generation - the young people whose attitudes and beliefs and openness to change have already made history in this election.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • May
  • History

• A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. He is like the lower end of a suspended chain; you can sway him slightly to the right or the left, but remove your hand and he falls into line with the other links.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Work
  • Hand

• To make an absolutely gross generalization, I think a lot of people feel like if you're mixed, more often than not you're quote unquote white. So if you're mixed, you embrace the mainstream culture more than the African-American culture.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • People
  • American
  • Culture

• An actor can come in with a specific energy and get it on film over several days or weeks, but as the producer, I'm responsible for the overall trajectory of the project.

  

  Peter Billingsley
  • Energy

• Life used to be a rite of passage in and of itself. But it's not our parents' generation anymore.

  

  Ben Schnetzer
  • Life
  • Parents

• I think politics is a reason why a lot of stuff doesn't get done. There's a lot of favors, and a lot of people are held back by their intentions of being re-elected or the things that they owe their party or constituents.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • People
  • Done
  • Why

• Whoever's president I'm not going to be short on material.

  

  Lizz Winstead

• To some extent at that time, we injected rock and roll into that scene- we played loud and that was a huge turning point for that scene. We were involved in playing with all those people.

  

  Arto Lindsay
  • People
  • Time
  • Rock

• Acting has been really good me. You end up in some wild places, and I love adventure.

  

  Martin Compston
  • Up
  • Good
  • Adventure

• The interview process tests not what the applicant knows, but how well they can process tricky questions: If you wanted to figure out how many times on average you would have to flip the pages of the Manhattan phone book to find a specific name, how would you approach the problem? If a spider fell to the bottom of a 50-foot well, and each day climbed up 3 feet and slipped back 2, how many days would it take the spider to get out of the well?

  

  Bill Gates
  • Applicant
  • Interview process

• Held in the custody of childhood is a locked chest; the adolescent, by one means or another, tries to open it. The chest is opened: inside, there is nothing. So he reaches a conclusion: the treasure chest is always like this, empty. From this point on, he gives priority to this assumption of his rather than to reality. In other words, he is now a 'grown-up.'

  

  Yukio Mishima
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Words

• History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.

  

  Charles Angoff
  • History
  • Events
  • Heard