Lee Grant Quotes

When I was on stage in the '50s, it was a glory time, a golden time with Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. There was real talent. And now, the theater is a little Disney-fied.

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• The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.

  

  Kate Klise
  • College
  • Surprise
  • Strive

• I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Pretty
  • Never
  • Looking

• I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Good
  • Game
  • Lost

• I feel like the one insight that's extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all share the same pool of emotion that we draw from.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • World
  • Feel
  • Emotion

• I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.

  

  Sally Field
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Dialogue

• I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Knew
  • Wrote

• Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Wind
  • Price

• In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Different
  • Same

• Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Kind
  • Birds
  • Racing

• There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Hate
  • Doctors
  • Medication

• All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Together
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Think
  • Career
  • Feeling

• I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Travel
  • Luxury
  • Cuddling

• The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • You
  • Respect
  • United Nations

• Marriage is something I'd recommend everyone to try, if you find the right person, of course.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Marriage
  • Find
  • Right Person

• It doesn't always make sense to have a token on the blockchain that is both useful and represents ownership - it has to be something where there's a network effect. That's why I cite Facebook as an example of what could be disrupted more so than, say, Amazon - which is bit more centralized and is not exactly a network of users in the same way.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Why
  • Way
  • Ownership

• To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • Me
  • Peace
  • Enemy

• More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • World
  • Good
  • Growing

• The Kurds in Iraq just don't have enough military equipment - they also need humanitarian relief.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
  • Military

• I wanted to try every style available to me - large productions, small productions, studio films, low-budget. You just can't sit around and wait for every big-budget film to come along.

  

  Daniel Wu
  • Small
  • Style

• My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Work
  • Why

• For me, because I've been working out since I graduated college, I have to mix it up. But it's not just working out for health's sake; it's also a whole mindset for me. Yoga is really important for that.

  

  Kim Raver
  • Up
  • Important
  • College

• When I was on stage in the '50s, it was a glory time, a golden time with Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. There was real talent. And now, the theater is a little Disney-fied.

  

  Lee Grant
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