Lee Hall Quotes

There is absolutely no point in not being a populist. What I feel emboldened to do is to take something which is a minority interest and make it accessible without dumbing it down. I'm such an enthusiast for peculiar things, things that are perhaps a bit avant-garde, and try and involve everyone.

Lee Hall

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• When you have a limited resource and you have a lot of people wanting that resource, then those who get more justify as to why they got more, and those who get less say they have been treated badly.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • People
  • Why
  • You

• If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
  • Earth
  • End

• I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would start joking around between songs, and all of a sudden people were lighting up and engaging.

  

  J. Tillman
  • People
  • Up
  • Eyes

• I keep wondering at night, 'Will I have a bank the next morning, or will some technology company be doing banking without needing a bank?'

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Night
  • Technology
  • Morning

• When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Up
  • You
  • Enemy

• Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Truth Is

• I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Different
  • Love
  • Together

• I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Up
  • Like
  • Feel

• The first thing many tourists see in Hawaii is concrete - a long dreary stretch of it through landscapes dominated by sad, cheap apartment buildings and almost entirely denuded of plant life.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Life
  • Long
  • Sad

• Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Great
  • Wealth
  • Development

• I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Movies
  • Kid
  • Watch

• My sole aim is to leave everything in suspension, in flux, in order to avoid our community solidifying into a conventional academy. Our initial resources may be few, but our spirits are high, receptive, and excited, and that seems to me to be the most important thing right now.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Community
  • Right
  • Aim

• Jews have a tendency to become comedians.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Become
  • Jews
  • Comedians

• You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Free
  • You
  • Never

• Ferran Adria making hamburgers... some thought it was crazy. But getting them perfect was a challenge. Plus I'm fascinated by all aspects of food.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Food
  • Perfect
  • Crazy

• It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
  • Art
  • Photography

• Although combat operations unseated the Taliban and the Saddam Hussein regime, a poor understanding of the recent histories of the Afghan and Iraqi peoples undermined efforts to consolidate early battlefield gains into lasting security.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Understanding
  • Security

• It's not like I'm the first man ever to do this, y'know? You gotta go back to Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and Sammy Davis Jr. Those are people who've done music well and movies well, and y'know, Frank Sinatra and Elvis and all these dudes have made the transition. I don't know about Elvis, 'bout doin' 'em good, y'know? It's nothin' new.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and in Brooklyn, and we - really, it's more southern. It's Naples and Sicily. It's heavier. It's over-spiced. And like most Americans, I thought spaghetti and meatballs was genius.

  

  Debi Mazar
  • Up
  • Husband
  • Italian

• The NATO treaty is crystal clear on this one: An attack on one nation shall be regarded as an attack on all of them.

  

  James G. Stavridis

• I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.

  

  Janelle Monae
  • Time
  • World
  • Believe

• Most of your God concepts deal with a static God, and here is one of your main theological difficulties. The awareness and inner experience of this gestalt constantly changes and grows. There is no static God. When you say, 'This is God,' then God is already something else.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • God
  • Experience

• And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they've gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots.

  

  Eric Massa
  • Health
  • Leadership
  • Administration

• There is absolutely no point in not being a populist. What I feel emboldened to do is to take something which is a minority interest and make it accessible without dumbing it down. I'm such an enthusiast for peculiar things, things that are perhaps a bit avant-garde, and try and involve everyone.

  

  Lee Hall