Berkeley Breathed Quotes

The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.

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• What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Freedom
  • Expression
  • Without

• I'm actually so low maintenance when it comes to my hair. It's naturally stick-straight, but I do like to use a curling iron to give my locks some life.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Life
  • Hair
  • Maintenance

• The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • People
  • Time
  • Change

• Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Time
  • Great
  • Interesting

• Golf is played with the arms.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Golf
  • Played
  • Arms

• I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West. There were hospices and medical supply stores geared to people with AIDS. It seemed that every sick man who could afford it had headed for the warmth and the tranquillity and the gay-friendliness of the island.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Men
  • Remember

• I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Work
  • Force
  • Directors

• I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Job
  • First
  • Old

• Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Hard Work

• Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Right
  • Something
  • Wrong

• I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.

  

  Raine Maida
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Ever

• Everyone in my country understands that Russia cannot do without Europe and that, vice versa, Europe cannot do without Russia. We depend on cooperation.

  

  Valentina Matviyenko
  • Country
  • Cooperation
  • Depend

• I don't want to become known as just a body.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Want
  • Body
  • Just

• Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Mother
  • Choose
  • Abortion

• I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.

  

  Veruschka von Lehndorff
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Know

• I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • School
  • Why

• My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Play
  • Singing

• The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Think

• ...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged by one harmony through the blending of the most opposite principles.

  

  Aristotle
  • Universe
  • Harmony
  • Principles

• I'm not a party animal; I took my job as Miss USA very seriously... Sometimes, of course, I want to let it all go. Even though I'm a beauty queen, you're also an unofficial ambassador, and there's a lot of pressure.

  

  Rima Fakih
  • Sometimes
  • Course
  • Ambassador

• Back in 1978, when I was still in high school, I went to see a Broadway show, 'Paul Robeson,' starring James Earl Jones. It was all about Robeson's journey as a human being, an artist, a champion of civil rights. Had I not seen the play, I might not have known who Robeson was. I was certainly never taught about him in school.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • School
  • High
  • Journey

• A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as or more than he has contributed to him.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Long

• The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.

  

  Berkeley Breathed
  • Universe
  • Sometimes
  • Enough