Bill Konigsberg Quotes

Actually, tolerance and acceptance are different. To tolerate seems to mean that there is something negative to tolerate, doesn't it?

Bill Konigsberg

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• I live in a state of hypersensitivity, and I've always had this feeling that something bad is going to happen to myself, or my wife and children. This manifests itself in different fears and visions.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Different
  • Live
  • Children

• Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • May
  • Look
  • Yoga

• I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • School
  • You
  • Win

• I want to let fans know how much I appreciate them and how much I appreciate them showing interest in our music and me personally.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Music
  • Me
  • Appreciate

• So many girls trying to be models, like, 'Oh my god, I want to be a model!' Nobody really knows the reality of it. It's a lot of hard work, but at the same time, it's a lot of fun.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Time
  • Work
  • God

• I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.

  

  Jack Black
  • Like
  • See
  • Just

• My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• Diving is a really, really difficult one because a player is the only one who genuinely knows whether they have dived. You can look at it at 40 different angles and not know. And you can just fall over, too.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Different
  • Know
  • Fall

• Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water. There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The 'I' is the jar.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Water

• God was awfully good to me during the good days. I cherish the old days, but I don't miss them.

  

  Don Ameche
  • Good
  • God

• You have to figure out what's important and keep the main points, though I will swing a little outside the box. It affords me the freedom to find out who the character is, and it's been a positive technique for me. I'm not saying everyone should change words, but if you can do it with confidence, you may nail it.

  

  Dawn Olivieri
  • Important
  • May
  • Character

• Everyone has issues, and I'm not someone who likes to burden people.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • People

• Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence.

  

  Mark Millar

• When you start a company, it's more an art than a science because it's totally unknown. Instead of solving high-profile problems, try to solve something that's deeply personal to you. Ideally, if you're an ordinary person and you've just solved your problem, you might have solved the problem for millions of people.

  

  Brian Chesky
  • People
  • Art
  • High

• Everything that goes outside the rules of Italian cinema has always been cursed.

  

  Luca Guadagnino
  • Italian

• Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I didn't think in terms of any other instrument but the tenor.

  

  Coleman Randolph Hawkins
  • People

• Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

  

  Matthew Prior

• I appreciate my music is famous, but I'd rather my face wasn't so that I can just live a normal life.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Life
  • Music
  • Live

• I reject the notion that a high turnout helps Senator Kerry. I think in Florida at least, it's going to help President Bush because we have gotten more registered voters than the Democrats, and our base is just fired up - thanks to your help and a lot of others.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • Up
  • Help
  • High

• There are guys on different teams across the league who are bench guys, and guys who that - that's their role, to be on the bench encouraging guys to play hard and get good minutes.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Good
  • Different
  • Encouraging

• In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture. Poetry is a popular genre in Afghanistan. If you turned on the radio, there would be a poetry program that would be as popular as The Real Housewives. People aren't listening to poetry as if they're taking their vitamins. Instead, it's a popular vessel you can fill with anything. You could fill it with sass. You could fill it with rage. You could fill it with political statements.

  

  Eliza Griswold
  • Culture
  • Poetry
  • Radio

• I really believe, when you come out of hiding, in whatever way you're hiding, you get to go out into the sunlight.

  

  Christine Quinn
  • Believe

• The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite.

  

  John Conyers
  • Done
  • Truth

• Actually, tolerance and acceptance are different. To tolerate seems to mean that there is something negative to tolerate, doesn't it?

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Different
  • Tolerance
  • Acceptance