Annie Parisse Quotes

I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.

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• NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Security
  • NATO
  • Cornerstone

• He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Man
  • Him
  • Telephone

• I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Sell

• We don't exactly have the opposite interests to chimpanzees. However, things are not looking up for the chimpanzees, because we control their environment. Our interests are not perfectly aligned with theirs, and it turns out it's not easy to get interests aligned.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Up
  • Control
  • Environment

• Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Time
  • Different
  • Language

• I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Believe
  • Way

• People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Why
  • Think

• If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Heart
  • Want
  • You

• Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Humanity
  • Intelligence

• There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Women
  • Number
  • Mechanical

• The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Good
  • Power
  • Future

• What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Mediocrity

• I ain't going to sit here like, 'My neighborhood was hard, and I had to get out there and grind.' We made it hard for ourselves. We chose to stay on the streets.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Streets
  • Grind
  • Sit

• Of course, nothing just falls into your lap - to get where I am now, I've worked hard.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Hard
  • Worked

• I'm not really the sex symbol type.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • Sex
  • Really
  • Symbol

• We wanted a supporting cast that would appeal to Baby Boomers who grew up in the fifties.

  

  Randal Kleiser
  • Up
  • Baby
  • Cast

• You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Book
  • House
  • You

• We absolutely look at larger trends and reactions on Twitter here at the White House.

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
  • House
  • Look
  • White

• It's a blast to watch. It's a lot more interesting live than it is on record. I mean, it really is a theatrical event. It's a sporting event! Cause you never know what's gonna happen.

  

  John Zorn
  • Live
  • Interesting

• Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

  

  Lawrence Blume
  • Power

• And it's kind of my own fault too, in the sense that I've used my own life as a literary device so much. I think people feel very comfortable reviewing the idea of me, as opposed to what I've actually written. I find that most of the time, when people write about one of my books, they're really just writing about what they think I may or may not represent, as sort of this abstract entity. Is that unfair? Not really. If I put myself in this position where I'm going to kind of weave elements of memoir into almost everything, well, I suppose that's going to happen.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.

  

  Annie Parisse