Nora Volkow Quotes

When you hunt animals, you may succeed or not. But when you open the fridge, you will succeed 100 percent of the time.

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• There is sometimes a tendency to assume that everyone in this great country has adequate housing. But when you go to certain places, certain neighborhoods, both urban and rural, you find out that's not the case, and I think we have to do much more.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Great
  • Country
  • Think

• Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • You
  • Better
  • See

• We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Want
  • Underestimate

• If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • People
  • Know
  • Story

• How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Game
  • You
  • Yesterday

• Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it's not the only voice.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Black
  • Community
  • Voice

• In fiction, there happens to be a long history of creative engagement with marginality, with the very human components of society that others don't want to think about, from writers such as Dostoyevsky, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud to Genet and Sarrazin and right on up to Norman Mailer.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Up
  • Long
  • History

• I had a diary full of lyrics and whatnot and a little voice recorder of guitar riffs.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Voice
  • Guitar
  • Lyrics

• I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Writing
  • Doing
  • Same

• I do pop, so pop is very broad. It could be anything from the Weeknd to Taylor Swift to Beyonce to whatever is on the radio, basically.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Very
  • Radio
  • Whatever

• My only thought about Margaret Thatcher is the same one I had about Ronald Reagan. I hated a lot of what they did, but once in a while a country just needs a change.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Country
  • Change
  • Thought

• Of course I love the action. I absolutely love doing action movies; it's what makes me tick, but I think my dream role is a movie that Will Smith's company has called 'Paper Wings.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Dream

• I will come back to India - so deal with it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Will
  • Back
  • India

• In 2005, I visited my home state of Texas, spending time on a ranch outside the town of Post. Then spending some time on a large ranch outside Archer City. I was taken by just how few young people I saw anywhere.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Time
  • Home

• I believe in one thing-that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Worth

• I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there weren't too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune.

  

  Anne Beatts
  • Time
  • Good
  • Women

• Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Giving
  • Irish
  • Ireland

• They pointed out that the friendship between the two artists had always been a byword or whatever you called it. A well-read Egg summed it up by saying that they were like Thingummy and what's-his-name.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Up
  • Friendship

• The problem for me was, I lived my childhood in my 20s. You should really try to live your childhood when you're a child, because if you do it when you're 26, it can be dangerous.

  

  Mike Lookinland
  • Problem
  • Child
  • Should

• Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Hands
  • Bee
  • Float

• My concern is that we live in an economy in which stabbing someone and waiting for them to complain before we remove the knife has become the normal way of doing business. When did we lose sight of the fact that it's not nice to stab people in the first place?

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Nice
  • Waiting
  • Facts

• Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take aesthetic communication, and aesthetic pleasure, seriously. We, their customers, demand it.

  

  Virginia Postrel
  • Important
  • Real
  • Communication

• Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

  

  Quintilian
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Everything

• When you hunt animals, you may succeed or not. But when you open the fridge, you will succeed 100 percent of the time.

  

  Nora Volkow
  • Succeed
  • Hunt
  • Fridge