Adolph Gottlieb Quotes

My favourite symbols were those I did not understand.

Adolph Gottlieb

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• Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Present
  • Identity

• Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Think
  • Washington

• I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • World
  • News
  • Gathering

• It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• When you are growing up, everyone will help you. When you reach the top, everyone will start pulling you down. The same people who help you will be the same people who try to pull you down.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • People
  • Up
  • Help

• I don't need anyone to look after me financially and, while it's hard to trust that a man loves you for the right reasons, you have to take a leap of faith.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Man
  • Faith
  • Trust

• The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Taken
  • Old
  • Ancient

• I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Never
  • Swimming
  • Awards

• I think a culture can really be elevated through the arts, and it's always a dream come true when I come across roles that enable me to fuse my love of storytelling with my passion for activism and raising social awareness.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Love
  • True
  • Dream

• What I hate is nasty, ugly people.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Hate
  • Ugly

• Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

  

  Ted Morgan
  • Man
  • Army
  • Madness

• During that space walk there will be some repositioning of the power so that the arm can be fully controlled by the robotic station that is in the Lab.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Power
  • Space
  • Walk

• Well, as I said, you know the issue of Greek debt, they've grasped the principle of debt reduction. I think most people would argue that probably more needs to be done on that front, and they've just begun to take the first steps to accepting that there's going to have to be much closer economic integration in Europe.

  

  Vince Cable
  • People
  • Done
  • Know

• Now that I'm 50 and respectably settled in New England and markedly happier and more contented than I was in my youth, I modestly hope there's time to realize some of my youthful goals before I croak, but I'll take what I can get.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Goals

• There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Time
  • Loss
  • Adversity

• I'm a lover of songs.

  

  Vince Clarke Depeche Mode
  • Songs
  • Lover

• I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Country
  • You
  • First

• Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless, but there is a lot of work. It's exactly like doing ballet. It's hours and hours, but when you go onstage, it's just the pleasure of dancing.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Work
  • Picture

• When theologians read the Bible through the lens of the Exodus narrative, they are called “liberation theologians,” but their counterparts who read it through the Greco-Roman narrative are never labeled “domination theologians” or “colonization theologians.” Similarly, we have “black theology” and “feminist theology,” but Greco-Roman orthodoxy is never called “white theology” or “male theology.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Bible
  • Theologians
  • Exodus narrative

• I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

  

  Kenneth Rexroth
  • Life

• Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

  

  Mary Baker Eddy
  • Up
  • Mind

• Why do I need I.D. to get I.D.? If I had I.D. I wouldn't need I.D.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Needs
  • Rap
  • Hip Hop

• It was an evil doom that set her in his path. For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. When I first looked on her and perceived her unhappiness, it seemed to me that I saw a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely as a lily and yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • House
  • Flower
  • Queens

• My favourite symbols were those I did not understand.

  

  Adolph Gottlieb