Armand Assante Quotes

You love what you do, you are cursed with it, and then you get known for being cursed with it.

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• A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • World
  • Painting
  • Opinions

• I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Country
  • Happy
  • Rest

• The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Very
  • Clear
  • Obsessed

• What has 'The Patchwork Girl of Oz' got in its favor? Quite a lot, from our point of view in 2009. If you want to see how Oz's creator envisioned his own work, here it is.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Work
  • Girl
  • View

• The Golan Heights is an area in the north of the State of Israel that has no part in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Conflict
  • Israel
  • Heights

• You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What - doesn't make a difference! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Good
  • Job
  • Man

• There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy. But I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Comedy

• Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Good
  • Light
  • Change

• Certain kinds of people will always have an issue with my music. But that's fine; it's OK. I don't want to be the McDonald's of music. I don't want to not turn anyone off. If you were everybody's cup of tea, you'd probably be boring.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Music
  • Tea

• I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Ideas

• Generally, I'm not writing about genomes or anything like that. But people underestimate the creativity you use in science and the rigor you need in music. They basically have the same path.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser today than he was yesterday - that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. But can we, for that reason, run ahead, and infer that he will make any particular change, of which he, himself, has given no intimation?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • Today

• I've not come to defeat or to put down anyone... I've come to win the hearts of the people of Rajkot. People should recognize the character of Congressmen who deprive people of Rajkot of water.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Character
  • Water

• Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity (as opposed to other religions whose tenets are more along the lines of 'kill everyone who doesn't smell bad and doesn't answer to the name Mohammed').

  

  Ann Coulter
  • People
  • Bad
  • Nice

• I think 'The Avengers' is a Black Widow movie. She saves the day. And if you take her out, the plot does not function.

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick
  • She
  • Movie
  • Black

• My mom wasn't a movie star.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Movie
  • Mom
  • Star

• Every once in a while I play a true idiot, and they're really fun to play.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • True
  • Fun

• When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh, my pantheon of favorite heroes. Then I would write my own things and sew them together and try to make my own book.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Book
  • American
  • Together

• The 14 points for quality control apply anywhere, to small organizations as well as to large ones...:

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Small
  • Control
  • Quality

• I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not.

  

  Donna Leon

• I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie.

  

  Brian De Palma
  • Movie
  • Dream

• I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability.

  

  Ken Livingstone

• (Pete) Rose's coming clean is the most soiled conversion of convenience since ... well, Aug. 17, 1998, when DNA evidence caused Bill Clinton to undergo a memory clarification. On the diamond, no one ever wrung more success from less natural talent than Rose did. But his second autobiography - which refutes the first - makes worse the mess he has made.

  

  George Will
  • Memories
  • Talent
  • Rose

• You love what you do, you are cursed with it, and then you get known for being cursed with it.

  

  Armand Assante