Alex Pareene Quotes

'The Newsroom' is phenomenally bad good TV. Sam Waterston and Jeff Daniels and Emily Mortimer are all terrific! So is the production, and the direction, and even the editing!

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• I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Friends
  • Funny

• Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Writing
  • Words
  • Acting

• All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Know
  • Nothing
  • Touch

• College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • College
  • Struggle
  • Debt

• The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Good
  • Feel
  • Chinese

• I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Rock
  • Living
  • Complain

• Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Death
  • Always
  • Sword

• The end of my playing career was May 28, 2017. That, for me, was an historic day. I'll carry it with me forever. It will be hard to explain to people the feelings and emotions I felt that day.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • People
  • May
  • Career

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

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Will
  • Nation
  • Forgotten

• I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Walk

• Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Work
  • May
  • Remember

• I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Wife
  • Wedding
  • Qualities

• You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

• I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Want
  • Better

• I think I'm a very intuitive actress.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Think
  • Very
  • Actress

• Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • People
  • You
  • Company

• You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really become very successful when you stick together. Just keep going and reaching bigger and better.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Together
  • Attention
  • Band

• I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

• I joined the church choir because there were these two hot chicks. Then people started giving me compliments. 'You really have a good voice.' Really? I just joined the choir for these girls.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • People
  • Good
  • Giving

• The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Country
  • Art
  • Culture

• I really, really, really love my job, so it's not like I'm trying to quit wrestling to do movies. They just all seemed like cool things to do. I mean, I'd love to be the bad guy in an action movie because then people would get to see another side of me they don't get to see.

  

  John Cena
  • People
  • Trying
  • Job

• It's really hard to teach me anything. I can't read music. I never learned how to read music. I read books about things and try to learn - I don't like to learn from anybody. Later on I would, once I'd get the hang of things. Like I ride horses, I'm good at that, Western riding. I learned all about it reading and studying. I'm always learning about horses, I like that.

  

  Don McLean
  • Good
  • Music
  • Trying

• As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

  

  David Crystal
  • Experience
  • Dad
  • King

• 'The Newsroom' is phenomenally bad good TV. Sam Waterston and Jeff Daniels and Emily Mortimer are all terrific! So is the production, and the direction, and even the editing!

  

  Alex Pareene
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