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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
-
We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.
-
If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I had a diary full of lyrics and whatnot and a little voice recorder of guitar riffs.
-
I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.'
-
I will come back to India - so deal with it.
-
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.
-
I believe in one thing-that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
-
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.
-
Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.
-
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.
-
[The Americans] believe in the idea that a child shouldn't be consigned to poverty just because of circumstances of their birth.
-
I was a very senior minister in the Howard government and I sat around this particular table in the prime ministerial office in many discussions. The difference between being a senior minister and the prime minister is that ultimately the buck does stop with the prime minister and in the end the prime minister has to make those critical judgement calls and that's the big difference.
-
The emotions of men, however, were of a different order. They were pesky annoyances, small dust devils at her feet. Her knack for causing heartbreak was innate, but her vitality often made people forgive her romantic misdeeds.
-
If we succeed, it makes no sense to keep it only for ourselves.
-
I like to do chill things on dates. I think it would be fun to go to the zoo. I know it's really weird and random, but I love animals. It'd be like a day of doing silly things, while enjoying nature.
-
When you hunt animals, you may succeed or not. But when you open the fridge, you will succeed 100 percent of the time.
