Louis Begley Quotes
I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I would like to continue to tell stories so long as I have stories to tell.Louis Begley
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
Dalai Lama -
Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
Pablo Picasso -
Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
Umberto Eco -
I can't take the theater side out of myself.
Laura Bell Bundy -
Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
Carlos Ghosn -
I don't think about my fame very much.
Calvin Klein
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
Barry White -
It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
Taya Kyle -
When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
Jack Nicholson -
Life is not easy in politics.
Viktor Orban -
I have to trust what I do and then do it.
Ednita Nazario
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A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.
Abby Wambach -
Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
Jack Keane -
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
Sacha Guitry -
I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.
Action Bronson -
Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.
Adam Grant -
When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
Fefe Dobson
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The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life, what is seen as good and evil. Good and evil are defined by religions.
Leo Tolstoy -
Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression 'being points beyond itself' may be taken to denote a higher point in space. What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the Mad Men generation, people like John Cheever and, in more modern times, Don DeLillo, who I always mention.
Dylan Moran -
Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on Broadway.
Adrianne Palicki -
Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
Jeremy Bentham -
I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I would like to continue to tell stories so long as I have stories to tell.
Louis Begley