Beeban Kidron Quotes

Arguably, it was the introduction of international non-proliferation treaties in the late '80s that finally led to the missiles being removed from Greenham Common.

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• Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

  

  Vernon A. Walters
  • Want
  • Attitude
  • Intelligence

• If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Me
  • Friend
  • Cute

• I don't drink coffee.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Coffee
  • Drink
  • Drink Coffee

• Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Myself
  • Year
  • Lazy

• I can't figure out how you can hire a coach and tell him how you want him to play.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Want
  • Play
  • Him

• I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Space

• If I had to control what I was speaking, it would be a chore. Right now I just feel I've got my shoes off, everybody comes in, I talk. If I was an actor it could be a problem, but right now I just talk all the crap, I can badmouth anybody I want, I can say what I want and move on.

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • Control
  • Problem
  • Shoes

• I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Want
  • Create
  • I Can

• To the small group of editors and designers who would launch Wired in January 1993, technology represented the future's best hope; but to the media, the tech boom was yesterday's story.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Small

• Being biracial is sort of like being in a secret society. Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.

  

  Halle Berry
  • People
  • Real
  • Society

• I wanted to have a free life.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Life
  • Free
  • Wanted

• With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for?

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Music
  • Beautiful
  • Words

• I'd watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of that glamorous world. A lot of that glamour is gone now. In my own small way, I hope I'm bringing some of it back. But it would be great if I could inspire women to dress up.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• Mourning in America, Savage Love column, The Stranger, 15 November 2016

  

  Dan Savage
  • America
  • Savage
  • November

• Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into another.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Personality

• I’d ask you to forego the jingoistic claptrap, but it’s terrifyingly obvious you truly believe it.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Believe

• Speak your name And I'll feel a thrill. You said I do, And I said I will.I tell you that I'll stay true, And give you just a little time. Wait on me baby, I want you to be all mine. I just get so blue.Since you've been gone, baby (why'd you do it? why'd you have to do it?)

  

  Aretha Franklin
  • Time
  • Why
  • True

• Baby if you give me just one more try

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Baby

• I could never have signed this treaty. I hope that that is clear to all who have heard me.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Hope

• A good rotation. A rotation I define as the experiencing of the new beyond the expectation of the experiencing of the new.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Good
  • Expectation

• Transgression of any kind is always accompanied by a loss of self-esteem.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Kind
  • Self
  • Loss

• Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Wish
  • Space
  • Independence

• Exceptional people convert life's setbacks into future successes.

  

  Carol S. Dweck
  • Success
  • Exceptional
  • Setback

• Arguably, it was the introduction of international non-proliferation treaties in the late '80s that finally led to the missiles being removed from Greenham Common.

  

  Beeban Kidron