Lee Siegel Quotes

Oprah's aspiration to inspire her audience with hope - elaborated on her TV show, in her magazine, and on her website - is hardly ignoble.

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• I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Constitution

• Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Different
  • Single
  • Day

• Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Mom

• Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

  

  Basil Bunting
  • Up
  • Age
  • Moment

• Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • People
  • Day
  • Hurt

• I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • House
  • Paris
  • Now

• No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Thought
  • Fight
  • Patience

• The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Will
  • Nation
  • Forgotten

• I'm not graceful.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Graceful

• If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • God
  • Eat
  • Sugar

• A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Work
  • Men
  • Live

• For personal use, I recommend the free and open-source Truecrypt, which comes in flavors for Windows, Mac and Linux.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Free
  • Personal
  • Windows

• I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • School
  • Childhood
  • Very

• Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Man
  • Meaning

• Kirmizi biber has a sweet aroma and can vary in spiciness.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweet
  • Vary

• Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I've kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • College
  • Forever
  • Numbers

• The Auto-Tune makes everybody sound the same and takes away all of the emotion because you're singing through this machine, and of course your taking all of this emotion out of your voice for the most part.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Singing
  • Auto

• I fell in love - that is the only expression I can think of - at once, and am still at the mercy of words, though sometimes now, knowing a little of their behavior very well, I think I can influence them slightly and have even learned to beat them now and then, which they appear to enjoy.

  

  Dylan Thomas
  • Words
  • Mercy

• I have learned that music helps a lot of people survive, and they want songs that can give them something - I guess you could call it hope.

  

  Maurice White Earth, Wind & Fire
  • People
  • Music
  • Hope

• Many unfortunate human situations unfold ... where people who face very bad options take desperate gambles, accepting a high probability of making things worse in exchange for a small hope of avoiding a large loss. Risk taking of this king often turns manageable failures into disasters.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • People
  • Bad
  • High

• You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.

  

  Maurice Ravel
  • Up

• Oprah's aspiration to inspire her audience with hope - elaborated on her TV show, in her magazine, and on her website - is hardly ignoble.

  

  Lee Siegel
  • Hope