Georges Pompidou Quotes
Your city is remarkable not only for its beauty. It is also, of all the cities in the United States, the one whose name, the world over, conjures up the most visions and more than any other, incites one to dream.
Quotes to Explore
-
I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.
-
As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
-
We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
-
I don't really see myself as an actor.
-
Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.
-
Lots are written about how 'she shows up at board meetings in the saree.' My God, I have never worn a saree to board meetings; people play it out in different ways. I think I have never shied away from the fact that I am an Indian, and I don't intend to, but you can be at home with both cultures.
-
If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.
-
When I started doing standup when I was 17, I was talking about being Indian and specifically ethnic jokes. Straightforward stuff that was fairly ignorant that I knew would get the laugh. It wasn't flipping stereotypes; it was using them.
-
The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
-
Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.
-
Child rearing is an art, and what makes art art is that it is doing several things at once.
-
He was within a few hours of giving his enemies the slip forever.
-
The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.
-
One can best observe a movement of the time - its dangers as well as its advantages - by scrutinising it in its strongest, most pronounced form.
-
I found myself drawn to the remote Kimberley region of Australia - in the far Northwest corner of the country - our last frontier. I still can't explain why. I kept coming back over many years and started shooting material.
-
'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s.
-
I operate under the theory that all publicity is good publicity, and then, if that theory doesn't work, you just say that any newspaper article ends up on the bottom of the parrot cage. But, of course, you can't line a parrot cage with Internet bloggers, can you?
-
To shut down Bitcoin is to shut down the Internet.
-
I don't know if the '80s were unique, but we certainly got original, groundbreaking stuff at the time with movies like 'Back to the Future' and 'Star Wars' - movies that became classics.
-
The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.
-
Every dream I've ever had in life has come true ten times over.
-
Your city is remarkable not only for its beauty. It is also, of all the cities in the United States, the one whose name, the world over, conjures up the most visions and more than any other, incites one to dream.
