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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.
Maisie Williams -
I think that designers and architects need to educate the people who don't quite know what they do and make a strong case for why it's valuable and why it changes the game. I think waiting for people to come around to it just won't do.
Dan Pink -
Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. Wells
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In a progressively privatised city, the defence of public space, the production of new public space, and saving what is public really for the public is very important.
Elizabeth Diller -
When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, declaring that all men were created equal, he owned slaves. Women couldn't vote. But, throughout history, our abolitionists, suffragettes, and civil rights leaders called on our nation, in reality, to live up to the nation's professed ideals in that Declaration.
Marvin Ammori -
People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
Daley Thompson -
I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.
Abraham Verghese -
As you get older, the summer is less of a vacation and more of a training period by yourself away from the team. It's exciting for me. I felt like I've been really getting better as far as my conditioning every single season as I get older.
Aaron Rodgers -
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