Bill Konigsberg Quotes

The world will make you vulnerable. If you’re acting like you’re not, that’s what you’re doing. Acting.

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• I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.

  

  Fleur East
  • School
  • Dad
  • Day

• AIPAC has consistently opposed a two-state solution, and a lot of members of Congress have been intimidated, and I don't think that's healthy.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Think
  • Healthy
  • Solution

• I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Taken
  • Industry
  • Seriously

• China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Most
  • China
  • Cyber

• If the world's nations can set aside their petty bickering over religion, politics, and territory, certainly I can 'get that Olympic Spirit' and rise above my prejudices.

  Colson Whitehead
  • World
  • Petty

• I'm comfortable with my body and it was a creative choice. I know that might make some women feel uncomfortable, but we need to stick together instead of getting angry at each other for our choices. I think women are sensual, beautiful beings, and I feel empowered when I express myself sexually.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Together

• [Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Time
  • Children
  • Direct

• Everyone procrastinates. The difference between high performers and low performers is largely determined by what they choose to procrastinate on. Since you must procrastinate anyway, decide today to procrastinate on low-value activities.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • High
  • Today
  • Value

• Music is a spiritual doorway. ... Its power comes from the fact that It plugs directly into the soul.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Music
  • Power
  • Soul

• I remember being very psyched for our first tours, despite not knowing about the endless stream of situations and setbacks that we'd face.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Remember
  • Face
  • Situations

• Hooking up with anybody from your past gets you thinking about things you haven't thought about in a while. It can rekindle dreams.

  

  Edward Burns
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Past

• Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Time
  • Fashion
  • Governments

• Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Curiosity
  • Seek
  • Consideration

• Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own ...

  

  Vicki Baum
  • Curious
  • Private
  • Carries

• End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Death
  • Path
  • Journey

• Nothing is easier than sinning.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Easier
  • Sinning

• Obviously, losing a parent is very difficult. I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics.

  

  Eric Shanteau
  • Parent
  • Losing
  • Olympics

• Lighting a fire UNDER someone will never be as effective as Lighting a fire WITHIN someone.

  

  Bob Teague
  • Fire
  • Lighting

• The second group consists of people of action who spend their lives in the public or political sphere. Their goal is fame or honor—recognition. The problem, however, is that they are keener on being recognized, than on actually being good people. What matters is the accolades and not the reason for.

  

  Edith Hall
  • Political
  • Action
  • Reason

• Because I'm fat, people believe I'm somehow vulnerable and easy to handle in a negotiation. Ever try to negotiate with a fat guy? We can be mean: Marvin Davis, Harvey Weinstein, Hermann Goering. No one screws around with us for long.

  

  Bernie Brillstein
  • People
  • Long
  • Easy

• I still think the revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small.

  

  Rebecca Solnit
  • Thinking
  • Revolution
  • Vulnerable

• The world will make you vulnerable. If you’re acting like you’re not, that’s what you’re doing. Acting.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Vulnerable