Aimee Bender Quotes

I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings.

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• After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Living

• I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • Good
  • Think
  • Doing

• It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • America
  • Change
  • Ignorance

• The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Evil
  • Spirit
  • Europe

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

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Job
  • First
  • Old

• Unfortunately, we have seen terrorist groups use social media to spread hateful propaganda, to recruit members, and to incite violence with alarming effectiveness.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Violence
  • Social Media

• We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Universe
  • Balance
  • Unknown

• Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • War
  • End
  • Cold

• Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to liberate the power of capital so that they can have as much economic growth as quickly as possible, and then all good things will flow from that.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Good
  • Power
  • Growth

• Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • You
  • Better
  • Writer

• We're all idealistic when young.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Young
  • Idealistic

• When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Kids
  • Trouble
  • Opportunities

• I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • People
  • Know
  • Inside

• Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Nature
  • Weather
  • Fruit

• What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Great
  • Country
  • Drama

• Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Words
  • Opinion

• Sometimes you will think you can't take it another day. But if you hang in there, one step at a time, you will be able to accomplish more than you ever imagine.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Time
  • Day
  • Step

• In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Love
  • Way
  • Myself

• I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Like

• I'm conscious of the fact that I'm sort of a bridging figure. I have my Chinese literary heritage and cultural background, so I'm comfortable with these things, but at the same time, I have to navigate the Anglo-American tradition, which has a self-centred view of what Asia and what being Chinese means.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Time
  • American
  • Chinese

• I'm named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested 'Brooklyn' as a more formal version, and it just stuck - and now I live in Brooklyn part-time, so go figure.

  

  Brooklyn Decker
  • Time
  • Live
  • Dad

• Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Faith
  • Christian
  • Anxiety

• New York is a small place when it comes to the part of it that wakes up just as the rest is going to bed.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Up
  • Small
  • Rest

• I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings.

  

  Aimee Bender
  • People
  • Time
  • Music