Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
Basil Rathbone -
Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.
Warren Weaver -
I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learning about how good he is.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.
Gay Talese -
I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?
Gary Frank -
I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.
Ed Koch
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I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because my films are on contemporary subjects, people do not share my point of view.
Otto Preminger -
I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.
Harmony Korine -
We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
D. B. Weiss -
One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.
Sam Brownback -
Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
Kanye West -
Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
Umberto Eco
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Humour allows people to exhale a little.
Zach Anner -
All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
Daisaku Ikeda -
In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
La India -
Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.
Laura Schlessinger -
Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.
Ed Smith
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I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.
Oscar Isaac -
I love how music and chants were used in the Civil Rights movement to help people keep marching. How songs were both a balm and a call to action.
Jamila Woods -
They are so pleased to find out other people's secrets. It distracts public attention from their own.
Oscar Wilde -
You have come to a place which doesn't tolerate anything but the best. You have come to a place where you can be heard. You have come to a place where you can grow.
Leo Burnett -
The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The prehistory of modern journalism shows it has been a ragged and confusing trade all the way through.
Andrew Marr -
Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison