Anne Roiphe Quotes

I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space to live or create, and they were bucking all kinds of spoken and unspoken rules.

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• I think it's always best to be who you are.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Think
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  • Best

• I'm such a happy, easygoing person.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Happy
  • Person
  • Easygoing

• I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Writing
  • Author
  • Living

• When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Truth
  • Trust
  • Promise

• If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Life
  • Music
  • Help

• Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • Fabulous

• I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • World
  • Sports
  • Soccer

• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Opportunity
  • Fruit
  • Seed

• We are exactly where we have chosen to be.

  

  Vernon Howard
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• Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Architecture
  • Logic
  • Often

• You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Fun
  • Understand

• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Love
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• I love researching, I love interviewing.

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • I Love
  • Interviewing
  • Researching

• Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Government
  • Myself
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• The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
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  • Together

• Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • History
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• I drink a gallon of water a day.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Day
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• I don't go to clubs. I don't know what club mixes are supposed to sound like.

  

  Kenneth Bruce Gorelick

• The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Me

• If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray To live a century? The butterfly that lives a day Has lived eternity.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time
  • Live
  • Why

• I honored my commitments, and as president, I will honor every commitment that I make to the men and women of this country.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• I left Kurdistan in April 2003 with the peshmerga, following their excited advance as Saddam's forces crumbled. First Kirkuk, then Mosul - where looters broke into the city museum and seized its Parthian sculptures - then Tikrit. I reported from Baghdad in month-long stints until the end of 2004.

  

  Luke Harding
  • Long
  • City
  • April

• I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space to live or create, and they were bucking all kinds of spoken and unspoken rules.

  

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