Ben Dolnick Quotes

Philip Roth has made a cottage industry of unlikable characters, but compared with Mickey Sabbath, the furious and profane protagonist of 'Sabbath's Theater,' Roth's earlier creations seem like Winnie the Pooh.

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• Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Character
  • Success
  • Way

• The thing about doing anything artificial to your hair is that you have to look after it. So you're always vulnerable to the weather and time.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Time
  • Hair
  • Weather

• I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • People
  • Care
  • Chicago

• We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • May
  • Mother
  • Earth

• My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Philosophy
  • District
  • Fits

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

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Believe
  • Truth

• The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Future
  • Myself

• First scenes are super-important to me. I'll spend months and months pacing and climbing the walls trying to come up with the first scene. I drive for hours on the freeway.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Up
  • Important
  • Trying

• If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • You
  • Wants
  • Turn

• I still can't believe that I went on 'The Colbert Report' myself; for the appearance I wore a lot of makeup, my hair was curled like a poodle's, and I could barely breathe in my Spanx undergarments. But, hey - an authoress has to lean in, right?

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Believe
  • Myself
  • Hair

• We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Present
  • Religion
  • Facts

• I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Perfect

• I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Think
  • Struggle
  • Swimming

• I've got to tell you, I'm not really a tie man. I'll wear a tie if I have to: If I'm standing in the dock and it looks like I'm facing 20 years, then I'll definitely wear the tie!

  

  Tamer Hassan
  • Man
  • You
  • Years

• What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.

  

  Gary North
  • Strategy
  • Forth

• A bold bad man, that dar'd to call by name Great Gorgon, Prince of darknesse and dead night.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Night

• Harriet: making an excuse Um... I'm looking for a copy of The Wheat-Free Guide to Creative Visualization in Co-dependent Past-Life Relationships.Mo: Huh. Jeez, I never heard of that one... Wonder if it's in spirituality or cooking.

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Life
  • Free
  • Past

• God is gone up on high with a triumphant noise.

  

  Charles Wesley
  • Up
  • God
  • High

• What are you going to do now? I just wrapped a remake of The Poseidon Adventure .. Lady in the Water.

  

  Wolfgang Petersen
  • Adventure
  • Remakes
  • Poseidon

• Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • Long
  • Friends
  • Alone

• In the interests of everyone the artist had a responsibility to use his medium well. In the Tibetan culture, most of the paintings are of deities or Buddhas, and they try to send a message of the value of the spiritual.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Culture
  • Responsibility
  • Value

• Our concern for human rights comes to the fore when there are gross violations of human decencies. Then other countries, including China, must recognize that this affects the American attitude towards their country. But towards what precise institutions will it evolve? I think we ought to leave something to history.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Human Rights
  • Violations
  • Human decencies

• Philip Roth has made a cottage industry of unlikable characters, but compared with Mickey Sabbath, the furious and profane protagonist of 'Sabbath's Theater,' Roth's earlier creations seem like Winnie the Pooh.

  

  Ben Dolnick