Edwin Newman Quotes

Sometimes reality entirely flees the White House.

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• I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kids

• Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • Friends
  • House
  • Dad

• One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Morning
  • Body
  • Butter

• Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Men
  • Women
  • Myself

• I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Information

• By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • City
  • Best
  • Hockey

• I've cooked plenty of meals when I was sad, lonely, depressed, angry, bored, and/or under the weather. My primary aim in these circumstances is generally to cheer myself up, to fill my stomach with something warm so I can feel comforted and fed, usually just with a quick soup or an omelet.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Sad

• If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro's protest.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • May
  • True
  • Expression

• My inspiration is always love and history, and my passion to a fault is craftsmanship and responsibility. Those are the simplest things. It goes beyond jewelry. It's every part of my life.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Life
  • Love
  • History

• Because I see my mum and dad as such amazing friends, I think I'll be a really good dad.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Dad

• I'm one of the first invention capitalists.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • First
  • Invention

• It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • You
  • Know
  • Filmmaking

• Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Life
  • Great
  • Life Is Hard

• Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Earth
  • Serious
  • Eye

• You assist an unjust administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Evil

• When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Reason is lost reasoning.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Lost

• A lot of people might sit back and watch Dominick Cruz doing his footwork, and say, 'Oh, Dominick Cruz just dancing around, and he runs away.' It's a totally different atmosphere until you get in there, and you actually experience it.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • People
  • Different
  • Experience

• When I started at Loewe, I took a year out before we did a collection because I felt we needed to work out all the fundamentals. The pencils, the door handles, the style of the press release, the stone of the buildings, the choice of photographer.

  

  Jonathan Anderson
  • Work
  • Style
  • Door

• If smart technology can transform 3-D from a crude novelty to a genuine visual enhancement, why shouldn't a sophisticated odor synthesizer follow a similar path?

  

  Charles Platt
  • Why
  • Technology
  • Path

• Cultural Studies and Ethnic Studies are on the rise, and many minority protests that I have witnessed say, in effect, “Do not racially profile us, we are Americans.

  

  Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
  • Effect
  • Minority
  • Protests

• I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.

  

  Michael Cerveris
  • School
  • Singing
  • Voice

• It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Knowledge
  • Judge
  • Situation

• Sometimes reality entirely flees the White House.

  

  Edwin Newman
  • Reality
  • White House
  • Flees