Eva Hoffman Quotes
It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein.Eva Hoffman
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
Octavia E. Butler -
I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.
Eddie Redmayne -
I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
Dan Fogler -
All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
Irwin Shaw -
The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould -
I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
Vince Vaughn
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
Gary Lineker -
I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.
Idina Menzel -
I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
Fiona Apple -
Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
Yu Chui Yee -
Now I love hoops. I'm a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is the '1812 Overture.' Pomp and circumstance, fireworks and cannons, lots and lots of fun, and in the end, still Tchaikovsky.
Rabih Alameddine -
Love is a credulous thing.
Ovid
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
Octavio Paz -
Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
Vernon Howard -
I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.
J. B. Smoove -
My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.
Kate O'Brien -
I am a woman. I go on set, and I'll be who I am, and I'll represent who I am. I think it comes with age.
Karen Elson -
We must not be squeamish when we learn that a total of 17,000 have been shot. We are now duty bound to hold together, we who are gathered together here figure on Mr. Roosevelt's list of war criminals. I have the honour of being Number One.
Hans Frank
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Even when I'm tired, when I come home and think about catching up on my sleep, I'd rather stay up and hold my daughters.
Charlie Haas -
People of color grow up steeped in 'white' culture. The reverse is not true. And, no, listening to hip-hop on the way to work does not count as immersion.
John Ridley -
Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.
Pierre Loti -
I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry.
Leon Theremin -
Islands are going to suffer from climate change in very, very difficult ways. And it's not just Pacific islands. It's not just Puerto Rico.
Brian Schatz -
It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein.
Eva Hoffman