Alice Ripley Quotes

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• Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Cloud

• A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Money
  • Food
  • Fly

• To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Hate
  • Know
  • Child

• I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Love
  • Smell
  • Gardening

• The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Control
  • Very
  • Machine

• For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • American
  • High
  • Culture

• There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Great
  • Worst
  • Relief

• A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Evidence
  • Defense
  • Funeral

• When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Different
  • American
  • America

• From my experience in working with bureaucrats and politicians, if you are a credible business group, they will definitely help you. At the end of the day, they, too, want development of their constituency, state or country.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Country
  • Business
  • Experience

• People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Truth
  • You

• I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Very
  • Talk
  • Well

• The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Game
  • Situation
  • Fever

• The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Surgery
  • Plastic Surgery

• I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Great
  • Career
  • Myself

• The food habits of the different classes of Hindus have been as fixed and stratified as their cults. Just as Hindus can be classified on their basis of their cults, so also they can be classified on the basis of their habits of food.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Different
  • Food
  • Just

• Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Me
  • Fans
  • Maybe

• I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be' this person, you know? So then its like, if I'm really this person, how can I be in the moment if I know there's just one line I'm supposed to say? It doesn't feel natural. I always just kind of want to say whatever comes up.

  

  Amy Sedaris
  • Up
  • Weird

• Today, what most people live in, or with, is the less-than-nuclear family. Working fathers are absent from home during most of the day, the children are schooled outside it, and practically all women who work for money must go outside to earn their living.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • People
  • Work
  • Women

• I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Love
  • Wife
  • Sweet

• I absolutely love spending time with my family.

  

  Kevin Alejandro
  • Time
  • Family

• The Christian's whole desire, at its best and highest, is that Jesus Christ be praised. It is always a wretched bastardization of our goals when we want to win glory for ourselves instead of for him.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • Desire
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• Uzo Aduba over at 'Godspell' is doing an even more entertaining Donald Trump than Donald Trump's Donald Trump.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Trump