Alex Shoumatoff Quotes
The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.
Quotes to Explore
-
I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
-
Parents are telling other parents that you can save a lot of money renting. Forever they've been looking for a solution to higher textbook prices.
-
The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
-
A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
-
My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
-
In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
-
I still can't believe that I've achieved what I have. It's like I've lived a dream for about five years now.
-
My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
-
I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.
-
I've had four children and I've done a good job and I'm happy in life.
-
Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.
-
Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.
-
I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always write in pain. You have all of your past experiences, feelings, and thoughts that you can turn on when you need them and turn off when you don't.
-
I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it.
-
In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.
-
I grew up in the Ukraine and then I went to Paris in 1996. I went there because there was a modeling agency that invited me there to work so I thought, 'Sure.'
-
The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong.
-
Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.
-
Do we know what we look like? Not really.
-
I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.
-
You have to have non-traditional ways of collaborating. But better is relative.
-
My first job was as a treetopper, and I was so damn good at it they called me Squirrel.
-
The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.
