Alexander Dale Oen Quotes

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

Alexander Dale Oen

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• When I first lived in a model apartment... It was two bunk beds to a room, and the bathroom was constantly in use. I was bringing in Lucky Charms cereal, and one day an agent put a stop to that. She said, 'You're making all the girls fat.' They took it off our grocery order. That was the most dramatic thing that happened.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • She
  • Stop
  • Day

• I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Up
  • Enjoy

• I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Reborn
  • Sanctuary

• Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Live
  • Die
  • Day

• There is a valid nationwide sentiment of concern over public pensions, and poor funding ratios are viewed negatively by financial markets.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Financial
  • Poor
  • Public

• I have two incredible sisters who have very high-powered jobs and kids and, you know, both have their master's; one runs triathlons all the time.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Time
  • Kids
  • High

• I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Mother
  • Hope
  • Start

• Yeah, I can understand that. All the splendor of the Taj Mahal, without the inconvenience and expense of traveling to India.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks

• I'm ridiculous to feel ridiculous when I'm not. You must  be laughing at me for feeling you are laughing at me  if you are not laughing at me.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Feeling

• I was definitely the oddball freak show in school.

  

  James St. James
  • School

• Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Desire

• If you know the mother's genome and the father's genome, and you see that the children have some genes that neither parent has, then you know that difference is either a mutation or a processing error.

  

  Leroy Hood
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Father

• May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • May
  • Justice

• Back in the day, fans wrote letters to groups - you'd get them, although it could take a while. Now, artists can go online and there's discussions about what you should and shouldn't be doing. The minute you announce that you're recording an album, thousands of people are telling you what that album should be.

  

  Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush
  • People

• An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted.

  

  Ameen Rihani
  • People
  • Time
  • True

• One of those quiet types who logs a lot of time in the bedlam of her head, I sometimes need to be startled awake to the fact that the outside world still exists.

  

  Amy Gerstler
  • Time
  • World

• I hope to show people everywhere that you can be unapologetically you and still succeed. I also hope that by using more diverse models, brands can see that there is power in diversity, and not shy away from doing something new for fear of failure. The effects are bigger than just the fashion industry.

  

  Philomena Kwao
  • People
  • Power
  • Hope

• Virtually nothing Barack Obama has done has left America or the world better since he became president. Nearly everything he has touched has been made worse.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • World
  • Done
  • America

• It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Success
  • Determines
  • Voyage

• In the end, you as a director, of course, are the captain on the ship. You have to say, "Well, we're sailing to the left and not to the right." But, you always have to listen to everyone, because I'm not always right and other people have great ideas, too. I think that makes great moviemaking.

  

  Baran Odar
  • People
  • Great
  • Thinking

• Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.

  

  P. D. James
  • Time
  • Different
  • Together

• Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes.

  

  Jeremy Brett

• 'The Bottoms' or 'A Fine Dark Line' are two of my favorites.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
  • Dark

• Nothing comes sailing by itself.

  

  Alexander Dale Oen
  • Sailing