Binnie Kirshenbaum Quotes

The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.

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• I am tone deaf.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Deaf

• I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Good
  • You
  • Wine

• The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Me
  • Dad

• We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Need
  • Size

• People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Work
  • Know
  • Acting

• Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Know

• It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Think
  • Earth
  • Gift

• The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Defeat
  • Useful
  • Soviet

• The truth is, I have more money than I'm interested in spending. Everyone in my family is taken care of.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Family
  • Money
  • Truth

• That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Why
  • Artist

• Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Way
  • Before
  • DNA

• People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Reading
  • Beach

• But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Fear
  • Best
  • Face

• There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • God
  • Long

• However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • May
  • American
  • Language

• This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• I am heartily glad to witness your veneration for a Book which to say nothing of its holiness or authority, contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other volume in existence.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Book

• And, yes, words matter. They may reflect reality, but they also have the power to change reality - the power to uplift and to abase.

  

  William Raspberry
  • May
  • Reality
  • Matter

• The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Real
  • Sex
  • Story

• Paris 1933 - 1944 with its wonderful (intense soft) light had relaxed my palette - there were other colors, other entirely new forms, and some that I had used years earlier. Naturally I did all this unconsciously.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Light
  • Paris

• The expression of joy also makes the ego more resilient, less fearful, less resentful of diverse conditions when they occur. The emotion itself is an automatic signal that unites the conscious and subconscious is shared experience.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Experience
  • Joy
  • Ego

• The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.

  

  Binnie Kirshenbaum
  • Moral
  • Story
  • Sorriest