Alex Shoumatoff Quotes

The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size is adaptive in a rain forest. You can move around more easily and unobtrusively. Not only humans but other species are smaller in rain forests.

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• I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Up
  • Film
  • Born

• The world needs some help.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • World
  • Help
  • Needs

• I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Earth

• There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • House
  • To Do
  • Corner

• The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Art
  • Religious
  • Artist

• My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Night
  • Write
  • Very

• The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Time
  • History
  • Education

• Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Way
  • Morning
  • Chef

• To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Truth
  • Speak
  • Easy

• There's a difference between being posh and being rich.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Rich
  • Difference
  • Being Rich

• One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'

  

  Ram Charan
  • Love
  • Stories
  • Love Stories

• I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.

  

  Earl Browder
  • War
  • Help
  • Free

• There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • People
  • Better
  • Version

• I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Artist
  • Look
  • Grow

• Sometimes I post something unwittingly that connects with women. But I never think, 'OK, let's take a shirtless picture for the girls.'

  

  Maluma
  • Women
  • Think
  • Picture

• For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Life
  • Good
  • Family

• I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Leader
  • Prison
  • Propaganda

• Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future.

  

  Sam Harris
  • War
  • Future
  • Win

• I learned how quickly I could go from having never met someone to having the world think I'm dating them.

  

  Halsey
  • World
  • Think
  • Dating

• Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Sound

• Usually we have pick-up shots to film after all the main work is done; sometimes we even do them after our wrap party. Just like when you're packing up and moving, it's the little things that end up taking the most time, and there is no romance in the clean up.

  

  Lela Loren
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Children
  • Beautiful
  • Memories

• In many ways, writing is the act of saying 'I,' of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying, 'Listen to me, see it my way, change your mind.' It's an aggressive, even a hostile act.

  

  Joan Didion
  • People
  • Writing
  • Mind

• The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size is adaptive in a rain forest. You can move around more easily and unobtrusively. Not only humans but other species are smaller in rain forests.

  

  Alex Shoumatoff
  • People
  • Rain
  • Forest