Maria Semple Quotes

If you're an artist and you're on Twitter, you are doomed to mediocrity.

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• It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Human
  • Impossible
  • View

• You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • You
  • Sports
  • Won

• I want to make smart choices.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Want
  • Choices
  • Smart

• I do not need any cheerleaders at my moot court. And I cannot imagine walking into that Court without the preparation of a few vicious moot courts; it is critical to the development of my thinking.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • Thinking
  • Walking
  • Preparation

• It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Always
  • Theatre
  • Scary

• The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Consequences
  • Probability

• For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Me
  • Relationship
  • Excitement

• Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk about equality for somebody else. Let's pass it on. Let's pass it on to somebody else. At the end of the day, it is all about inequality.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Black
  • Day

• I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Important
  • Baseball
  • Stand

• For me, my country comes first. Nothing else matters but my country. I always felt that the best way to express your patriotism is to spread love, and that's all I ever tried to do through my work and my cinema.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Work
  • Country
  • Way

• I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Know
  • Model
  • Write

• You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Tired

• Some of the most morally conscious, kindest, most compassionate people are in the entertainment industry, people who want to affect the world and make it a better place through telling human, heartfelt stories.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • World
  • Better

• We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Power
  • Understand
  • Irony

• I am not famous at all.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Famous

• Everyone knows that the Zionist regime is a tool in the hands of the United States and British governments.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

• From a magician's midnight sleevethe radio-singersdistribute all their love-songsover the dew-wet lawns.

  

  Elizabeth Bishop

• What's changed in New York, and what made us really change our thinking about New York, is that the different neighborhoods are becoming more important as shopping destinations than they used to be.

  

  Karen Katz
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Important

• Tuesday nights is Men's League and Thursday nights is Ladies' League. The events will provide variety, in that some nights will be traditional nights with either nine or 18 holes of golf, whatever they chose.

  

  Brent Smith Shinedown
  • One

• I don't anticipate having him in the near future. But as I told him, we're nearly two months away from playing games, and a lot can happen in two months.

  

  Dan Monson
  • Future
  • Two
  • Happen

• The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Language
  • Ethics
  • Accept

• I grew up in a very bohemian environment in southern Sweden, so I was always, always, always in black jeans.

  

  Johan Lindeberg
  • Up
  • Black
  • Environment

• Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Fight
  • Self
  • Survival

• If you're an artist and you're on Twitter, you are doomed to mediocrity.

  

  Maria Semple