Beeban Kidron Quotes

People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.

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• Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.

  

  Fairfax Cone
  • You
  • See
  • Advertising

• I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Long
  • You
  • Years

• Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Problem
  • Planning
  • Housing

• When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Remember
  • Light
  • Win

• Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Love
  • Problem
  • Trust

• I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Wear
  • Did
  • Van

• Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Training
  • Police
  • Soldiers

• In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Reality
  • Honesty
  • Page

• I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • World
  • Great
  • Home

• I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Man
  • Respect
  • Colors

• I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Good
  • Writing

• I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Different
  • Day
  • Mom

• We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • World
  • Nature
  • Future

• The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I love rock n' rollers.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Love
  • Rock
  • I Love

• I'll get up at 5 or 6. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, so I'll try to get seven hours of sleep. During the week, my ideal is to go to bed at 9 and wake up six hours later.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Week

• And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Dream
  • You
  • Dare

• I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Know
  • Like
  • Violence

• So many of us, we love these things that come from Japan. We play the video games every day, we read the manga, people watch the cartoons, they absolutely love it.

  

  Yaya Han
  • People
  • Play
  • Video Games

• I'm not going to tell people how to write, but we do have a skill set, and the more we put ourselves out into the world as poets, as a sort of poet of the tribe, as representatives of metaphor, and try to claim space for metaphor in the inner life, that's going to be important and be helpful to poetry and bring a tension for poets writing about whatever they choose.

  

  David Biespiel
  • People
  • Important
  • Writing

• When I go down to Comic-Con in San Diego, people remember me for some of the strangest things. They go on and on about it, and I reminisce about it, and it's great fun. It's interesting to see what people remember me for.

  

  Ray Wise
  • People
  • Remember
  • Interesting

• It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Mind
  • Parents
  • Crazy

• Documentaries make a difference.

  

  Paul Watson

• People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • People
  • Abuse