Alexander Chee Quotes

My mother's family has been in Maine for over 300 years on the same farm. They have a King George III deed.

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• Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • World
  • Culture
  • Detail

• I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Army

• Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Me
  • Ground
  • Keeps

• The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • People
  • Romantic
  • Surprise

• I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Medical
  • Ship
  • Physician

• No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • True
  • Patriotism
  • Rebellion

• Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Power
  • Doubt
  • Rose

• 'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Loved
  • Negative
  • Been

• The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Me
  • Best
  • Experiences

• To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Feeling
  • Best
  • Being

• It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Business
  • Pleasure
  • Temple

• I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Time
  • Think
  • Funny

• By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • City
  • Best
  • Hockey

• Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Small
  • Deep
  • Pride

• Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Play
  • Competition
  • Golf

• There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Reason
  • Seems
  • Medication

• Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • People
  • Church
  • Jesus

• I don't know, I like the word sassy.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Know
  • Like
  • Sassy

• I am surrounded by my family, my beloved grandchildren, and my pack of dogs.

  

  Christine Feehan
  • Family
  • Grandchildren

• An interesting difference between African-American humor and Jewish humor, in it's kind of basic or maybe most austere type form is, African-American humor, some of it comes out of playing the dozens in which you insult the other person or insult the other person's mother, and so much of Jewish humor is like, you're insulting yourself. It's totally self-deprecating.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Mother
  • Interesting
  • Kind

• I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Good
  • Culture
  • Singing

• I sign every autograph I can for kids because I remember myself at that age. I think it's ridiculous that some guys won't sign for a kid.

  

  Jim Thome
  • Kids
  • Remember
  • Age

• I also believe that if we're serious about change, we need to have a real discussion about public financing for congressional elections.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Serious

• My mother's family has been in Maine for over 300 years on the same farm. They have a King George III deed.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • Family
  • Mother
  • King