Amity Shlaes Quotes

Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.

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• The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Done
  • Job
  • Best

• Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Friends
  • Democracy
  • United

• I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Doubt

• I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Believe
  • Friends
  • Mountain

• The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Work
  • Great
  • Men

• We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Done
  • Hear
  • Drummer

• To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done - or it's about giving until it hurts.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Giving
  • Me
  • Charity

• Ninety-nine percent of the time, when it comes down to it, if I have the choice between a great role and seeing a new guy, I would probably go for the great role because I figure if the guy's really that great that he'll be around once I'm done with the movie.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Time
  • Great
  • Done

• I've done a lot of sorts of films that are under the radar.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Done
  • Films
  • Lot

• I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Great
  • Family
  • Love

• It's not easy to come somewhere new and have to find your place. You might feel someone doesn't like you, or you might need to find new friends. It's not easy, and I don't like this kind of thing. It's not easy, so you want to protect the players who are alone.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Friends
  • Alone
  • Easy

• It can literally change someone's life; it's very positive for young teenagers to get into cosplay if they do it with their friends or with supervision from their parents - it can really foster their social skills.

  

  Yaya Han
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Parents

• Almost always, when we have fights in movies, they're done in these strange rooms where nothing gets broken. It's almost like they're in padded cells.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Done
  • Movies
  • Broken

• The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• I have a small family, but they are all still in Perth, and I am still very close with my high-school friends.

  

  Kate Jenkinson
  • School
  • Family
  • Friends

• There's no white comic that sells tickets to black people like me. They're going to get their hair done, get a new outfit, and come out to see a white dude.

  

  Gary Owen
  • People
  • Done
  • Black

• My friends who have babies can't do anything. You can't go out at night. Having a baby is like a DUI from the universe.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Universe

• Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

  

  Sallust
  • Good
  • Money
  • Friends

• The voice muscle doesn't last forever. I have a lot of friends who are classical and opera singers. My friend Beverly Sills stopped singing in her 50s, so I'm careful with mine. But I'll keep going as long as it lets me.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Long
  • Friends
  • Friend

• The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.

  

  Placido Domingo
  • Bad
  • Health
  • Emotional

• Lingerie is my next love after clothing; I think it is what is worn underneath that really inspires a woman to feel beautiful in her clothes - that inner, secret glamour.

  

  Alice Temperley
  • Beautiful

• There's no true value placed in learning, if the point of you learning something is to simply know it for a test, to get a grade, to go to the good school.

  

  Ezra Miller
  • Learning
  • Grade
  • Good School

• Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.

  

  Amity Shlaes
  • Done
  • Friends
  • Friendship