Alice Ripley Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
-
In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.
-
You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
-
I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
-
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
-
Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
-
No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
-
I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.
-
I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
-
Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
-
We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
-
I didn't know what to expect, having not been an artist before. From the outside, you only see romantic snapshots of what seems like a great lifestyle, and it is, but it's also grueling.
-
At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.
-
As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
-
To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
-
What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
-
You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.
-
A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.
-
And thirdly, the FDA occasionally does some genuine public good with whatever energies it has left over after serving the vested political and commercial interest of its first two activities.
-
God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.
-
When you are a writer, the assist-to-turnover ratio... there are a lot more turnovers than assists.
-
I was never one of the cool kids who read '2000 AD.'
-
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
-
Sometimes you're the only one who thinks you have a good idea.
