Leonard Bernstein Quotes

Callas? She was pure electricity.

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• Never having alone time is real tough on people.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'

  

  Fleur East
  • People
  • Black
  • Dad

• When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.

  

  Zachary Gordon
  • People
  • Up
  • Mom

• It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Nonfiction

• There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Up
  • Good
  • Attention

• I love to get home and hang out with my family. My brothers and I love spending time at the beach. I enjoy doing all kinds of surf sports and keeping healthy.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Time
  • Family
  • Love

• I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Found
  • Early
  • Communist

• I've always been happy with my body.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Happy
  • Always
  • Body

• I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Different
  • Trying

• Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • World
  • Free
  • Action

• My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Family
  • Training
  • Yourself

• Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Spiritual
  • Three
  • Tattoos

• One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Work
  • Important
  • Teach

• Bridget Jones has a lot to answer for.

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • Answer
  • Lot
  • Bridget Jones

• My stepdad is a Patriots fan, so I've become a Pats fan, too.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Fan
  • Become
  • Patriots

• I'm used to doing independent film where the style is a lot more casual. With improvising, you obviously find so much out on the day - and in a way, I feel more comfortable doing that.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Day
  • Style
  • Independent

• The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Road

• Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Nothing
  • Witty
  • Mythology

• I did study religion for a little while. I studied the Torah and the Holy Koran, Helios Biblos, which is considered by most people to be the Holy Bible. I just wanted to know, even with Buddhism and the Dalai Llama.

  

  Kevin Gates
  • People
  • Study
  • Bible

• She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as women judge men - not on the strength of their arguments, and not on their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, the strength of their soul, their compassion, and - ah, this above all - their conversation.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Men
  • Women
  • She

• Obama issued a slew of executive orders about climate change during the eight years of his presidency. Inexplicably, President Trump revoked about half of them but left the other half in place. Since Obama's orders were intertwined, it's unclear exactly what applies.

  

  Charles C. Mann
  • Trump

• I didn't work with any of the beasts [ "Fantastic Beasts"], I didn't have much green screen, but I loved working on it. I'm excited to see it myself.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Work
  • Green
  • Fantastic

• Callas? She was pure electricity.

  

  Leonard Bernstein
  • She