Ariel Dorfman Quotes

I don't believe in God, but I believe in angels.

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• I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Together
  • Day
  • End

• As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Time
  • World
  • Growing

• The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Beautiful
  • Beauty
  • Ugly

• I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • People
  • Remember
  • Black

• I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.

  

  Barry White
  • Looking
  • Babies
  • Trip

• I went to Antarctica on a science research boat just to sort of clear my head.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Science
  • Research
  • Boat

• In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • World
  • Work
  • Past

• I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Time
  • Think
  • Living

• We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Great
  • Relationship
  • Face

• Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Single

• Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Like
  • Take
  • Sensitive

• I was a horrible athlete.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Athlete
  • Horrible

• If you fire people, you fire customers.

  

  Ferdinand Piech
  • People
  • Business
  • Fire

• What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Love
  • History
  • City

• Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Important
  • Balance
  • Find

• Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Past
  • Alone
  • Present

• You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • School
  • Guy
  • Opportunity

• Many of us have a tendency to forget the Gracious Hand which has preserved our nation, enriched it, strengthened it. Many of us imagine in the foolishness of pride, that our manifold blessings are due not to God's goodness, but to our own wisdom and virtue. Too many of us have been so drunk with self-sufficiency as no longer to feel the need of prayer.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • God
  • Wisdom
  • Pride

• I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it.

  

  Jessica Hagedorn
  • Music
  • Believe

• People can get a bit like, "Oh my God, your life is different than mine." But no, it's not. Everyone's got the same problems. We all get jobs, and we lose them. We have a good time, and we don't have a good time. It's changed in that some people have a certain expectation of what they might find when they meet me, which sucks, because I'm not that thing.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Believe

• We outgrow love, like other thingsAnd put it in the Drawer -Till it an Antique fashion shows -Like Costumes Grandsires wore.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Fashion

• I don't believe in God, but I believe in angels.

  

  Ariel Dorfman
  • God
  • Believe