Alia Shawkat (Alia Martine Shawkat) Quotes

My grandfather talked about James Dean; they were both very much into method acting.

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• Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Live
  • Today
  • Cloud

• Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Friends
  • Criticism
  • Abuse

• Naturalization is the process by which a citizen, or subject of a foreign nation or kingdom, is made a citizen of the United States. It is evident that the Constitutional Convention thought that it was important that this process should be placed under the exclusive control of the Federal Government and not of the States.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Important
  • Control
  • Government

• My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Smile
  • Face
  • Cause

• I definitely think that myself and Sam will help the Timberwolves.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Help
  • Think
  • Myself

• My schedule is so crazy.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Crazy
  • Schedule

• As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Nice
  • Myself
  • Quality

• ObamaCare is working. I talk to a lot of CEOs of hospitals. It is working.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Working
  • Talk
  • Hospitals

• Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • May
  • Understanding
  • Same

• I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Heart
  • Feeling
  • Ideas

• Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Time
  • Creative
  • Equality

• I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • World
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Loved
  • Psychology
  • Self-Worth

• Real talent shines through regardless of how many others there are around you.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Real
  • You
  • Talent

• I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Baseball
  • Born
  • I Can

• No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • People
  • Great
  • War

• I've been very lucky enough to do all kinds of movies. All the movies that I've done have been very different, and all the characters I've done have been very different. I feel very lucky to have been able to do the movies that I've done.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Different
  • Done
  • Enough

• I think Bill Finn's one of the geniuses of theatre, and James Lapine's one of the diamonds of my generation. The two together are a joy!

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Together
  • Joy
  • Theatre

• The closer you get to heaven, the less air there is, because when you get to heaven for real, you don't need to breathe anymore.

  

  Catherine Ryan Hyde
  • Real
  • Heaven
  • Air

• Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under certain circumstances, minimum wages can be beneficial, as it makes workers more productive.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Free
  • Political
  • Minimum Wage

• The first time I read something, I have this special feeling of being fully engaged with it. It's fresh to the audience because it's fresh to me. It's a little mystical, but I really believe that.

  

  Peter Coyote
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Feeling

• When we started off, we wanted the girls, the cocaine, the fur coats. It wasn't like it was an act; it was almost like working-class people winning the pools. We went bananas.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • People
  • Winning
  • Girls

• My grandfather talked about James Dean; they were both very much into method acting.

  

  Alia Shawkat