Alex Weisman Quotes

It really wasn't about picking Chicago. I feel like Chicago picked me.

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• I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • She
  • Business
  • Fun

• Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide presence but have the head office jobs, the head office managers and head office employees in your local economy are important from a job creation and wealth creation point of view.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Important
  • Job
  • Wealth

• Sometimes you want things so bad you will kind of lower your standards, and I've learned that once you do that, it's really hard to go back, to get people to respect you and respect your craft.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • People
  • Bad
  • Want

• I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • True
  • Career

• And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Want
  • You
  • Play

• I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Between

• And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Country
  • Character
  • Study

• 'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.

  

  Barbara Cooney
  • Heart
  • Right
  • Ego

• I came to America to make it my home, and I did.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Home
  • America
  • I Came

• The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Use
  • Tongue
  • Tool

• This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.

  

  Ed Wood
  • People
  • Guy
  • Girl

• I don't think that attorneys should be in any way running for governor.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Think
  • Way
  • Running

• I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Long
  • Live
  • Pretty

• I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.

  

  Sally Ride
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Done
  • Fun
  • Me

• Running opened up something beautiful in my life. I try to send the energy all over my body. I love the feeling of it.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Life
  • Up
  • Love

• We do not want to interfere with the freedom of press.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Want
  • Freedom
  • Press

• I don't run a non-profit. There are lots of non-profits in America - in Detroit, parts of Wall Street, etc. I run a not for profit. We're a business. The only difference is that instead of selling soap or sneakers, we sell hope and leadership.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Business
  • America
  • Hope

• The thing about people from Chicago and the Northwest suburbs is that they're very cocky. I think that serves us well in the show business world.

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
  • People
  • World
  • Business

• Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Interest
  • Duty
  • Holy

• However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.

  

  Kate Millett
  • May
  • Power
  • Culture

• On the set, everybody is different, so you have to deal with different sensibilities. I don't have a method. Usually, I try to have a good connection with the actor that I'm filming. Even a guy who's there with two lines of dialogue, I always try to have a connection with the guy I'm filming, just to make it into a nice, enjoyable moment.

  

  Quentin Dupieux
  • Good
  • Different
  • Guy

• It really wasn't about picking Chicago. I feel like Chicago picked me.

  

  Alex Weisman
  • Chicago