Lewis Carroll Quotes

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• I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Government
  • Easy

• If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Bad
  • You
  • Fighting

• It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Sleep
  • Unfortunate

• Our research is so complex that the resources of a single region of the world are no longer enough - both intellectually and economically, it must be a global effort.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • World
  • Single
  • Effort

• Intolerance is alien to Hinduism.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Alien
  • Hinduism
  • Intolerance

• First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Music
  • Black

• Sure, men like a challenge - but so do women. And nobody likes to be challenged all the time. I know plenty of long-standing happy couples who slept together right away, spent hours yakking on the phone, split checks down the middle, and lived together for years before the wedding.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Book
  • Feeling
  • Me

• It's really, really hard to get in rooms with people you don't usually work with and try to find common ground.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Work
  • Find

• Consciously picking the right script after a long period of wait helped me grab a perfect film in the rom-com genre.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Me
  • Perfect
  • Film

• Historically, the National Religious Party, which my party - Jewish Home - is built upon, has aligned itself in consecutive Israeli governments with the ultra-Orthodox factions.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Home
  • Party
  • Religious

• Honestly, I'm willing to experiment with far more variety in roles than I'm given. But ultimately, it's the producer's decision. But, I've done a variety of roles - the evil don, the evil husband... I've done villainous roles, supporting roles, etc.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Done
  • Evil
  • Decision

• We run a car wreck photo every week, whether we have a car wreck or not. That's our golden rule.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • Car

• I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • God
  • Faith
  • Lost

• I don't like kitten heels. I just don't think they are an attractive shoe because they always look so stumpy. And I would never wear cowboy boots: a pointy toe and little heel is just not my thing.

  

  Jessica Hart
  • Cowboy

• I would be the worst person on earth to be called to write an account of someone else's life.

  

  Peter Carey
  • Life
  • Earth

• I'm kind of like Che Guevera. I lead the revolution, but at some point I turn it over to someone else.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Revolution

• Sometimes people think I'm sort of a Machiavelli who is thinking, 'How can I disarm people? I know: I'll create a persona; I'll get some spectacles, and when I meet you, I'll say, 'How are you doing?' And I will be very unassuming and polite and never get angry.'

  

  Louis Theroux
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Angry

• I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Life
  • Small
  • Texas

• Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

  

  Fawn M. Brodie
  • Life
  • Character
  • Curiosity

• Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Vision
  • Speak
  • Curiosity

• We love peace, but not peace at any price.

  

  Douglas William Jerrold
  • Peace

• The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.

  

  David Remnick
  • World
  • Job
  • Beautiful

• Burning with curiosity.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Curiosity
  • Burning