Leila Josefowicz Quotes

I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.

Leila Josefowicz

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• I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Truth
  • You
  • Actor

• Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Fame
  • Annoying
  • Too

• I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • Up
  • Color
  • Texas

• There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Lost
  • Conversation
  • Slow

• I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • You
  • Feeling
  • Like

• Most people hoard their money - just keep it in the bank. Bitcoin will really take off when people start spending it, creating a velocity of money.

  

  Adam Draper
  • People
  • Money
  • Start

• When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Thought
  • See
  • Now

• People feel that I became an actor because I am from a film family and that my parents were actors. But actually, the only reason I wanted to become an actor was to get away from studies.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • Family
  • Parents

• It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Real
  • You
  • Adventure

• Scott Ritter is a very well-known archetype of a certain U.S. military officer. Very hard talking, very ambitious, zealous, and completely consumed with carrying out his mission. He's a guy who, throughout his career, I would say, did not break rules, but he worked around road blocks.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Guy
  • Career
  • Road

• I've been in Los Angeles for a while, and the kind of psychological connection that one makes to people, it just doesn't happen out here.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • People
  • Kind
  • Connection

• What the poet has in mind . . . is that poetic value is an intrinsic value. It is not the value of knowledge. It is not the value of faith. It is the value of imagination. The poet tries to exemplify it, in part as I have tried to exemplify it here, by identifying it with an imaginative activity that diffuses itself throughout our lives.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mind
  • Faith
  • Knowledge

• Getting along with women, Knocking around with men, Having more credit than money, Thus one goes through the world.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• Anyone who isn't confused doesn't really understand the situation.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • Confused

• Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.

  

  Marcus Aurelius

• Ethical axioms are founded and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • Science

• I'm just happy I got a hole-in-one for the first time in my life.

  

  Joe Sakic
  • Life
  • Time
  • Happy

• I've always been interested in those Orwellian dystopian novels, like 'Fahrenheit 451,' 'Brave New World,' and obviously Orwell's '1984.'

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • World
  • Brave

• In Morocco, a Muslim country, I got to hear the call to prayer five times a day. At first it felt kind of scary, kind of dangerous, because of the propaganda towards anything Muslim in the U.S. subconsciously coming out in me. By the end of the trip, it was so beautiful, and then not hearing it when I got back to L.A. really threw me off.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Country
  • Beautiful
  • Prayer

• And I came to understand, in a way I never had before, that books are truly the stuff of miracles. I even dared to dream that someday, somehow, I might surround myself with books from many times and many tongues.

  

  T.A. Barron
  • Book
  • Dream
  • Miracle

• I was lucky in getting my first book published; my first book was 'Bunnicula,' which I wrote with my late wife Debbie, for the fun of it.

  

  James Howe
  • Book
  • Fun
  • Wife

• In the face of anger, the best response is a burst of tenderness.

  

  Catherine Ingram
  • Faces
  • Anger
  • Response

• I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.

  

  Leila Josefowicz