Adriana Trigiani Quotes

I understand how a first impression is often just that: a quick snapshot that, on its own merit, is meaningless.

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• I like to have fun, just stay relaxed.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Fun
  • Like
  • Have Fun

• I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Trust
  • Find

• When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Time
  • American
  • Political

• I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Done
  • Wonder
  • Tough

• I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Plays

• It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • God
  • Day
  • End

• I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Feeling
  • Anymore
  • Kansas

• The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Human
  • Data
  • Volumes

• To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Decathlon

• I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Community
  • Always
  • Israel

• Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Real
  • Character
  • Myself

• I am really addicted to music.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Music
  • Addicted

• Terrorism is not new to black people.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • People
  • Black
  • Terrorism

• I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Game
  • Man
  • Proud

• If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Change
  • Woman
  • Shoes

• When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Life
  • World
  • Believe

• I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Funny
  • Optimist
  • Carries

• Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Life
  • Best
  • Try

• The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of faith over reason, and intolerance make institutionalized religion an ideal instrument of social constraint.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Fear
  • Faith
  • Church

• We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Heart
  • Together
  • Moon

• You think you know her. Just wait and see the change. I'll have her trained in no time.

  

  David O. Selznick
  • Time

• It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.

  

  Vagit Alekperov
  • Country
  • Company
  • Impossible

• When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Everything
  • Understands

• I understand how a first impression is often just that: a quick snapshot that, on its own merit, is meaningless.

  

  Adriana Trigiani