Al Bernstein Quotes

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.

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• I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Religion
  • Child

• We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Time
  • Small
  • Jesus

• I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Lucky

• A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • House
  • Man

• People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Life
  • Funny

• Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Silence
  • Now
  • Teachers

• I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Great
  • Challenge
  • Looking

• Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Teachers

• A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Love
  • Investment
  • Only

• I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.

  

  Tana French
  • Writing
  • Words
  • Doing

• Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Good
  • Good Things

• We support about 5,000 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with software, training, and technical support. We provide our software at virtually no cost to them, and they're lighting up the world with what they do.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Up
  • World
  • Support

• I stopped doing standup because it stopped being fun. And the reason it stopped being fun was it was harder to write - and this was before the Internet - it was harder to write new stuff. It had gotten so crazy.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Fun
  • Crazy
  • Internet

• I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Feeling
  • Storm
  • Grit

• Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • God
  • Prove
  • Dust

• I've never professed to be anything but an average student.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Never
  • Average
  • Student

• We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.

  

  Ian Hart
  • World
  • War
  • Think

• I'm a very laboured writer. I hammer it out sentence by sentence, and it takes a long time. That's what the work is, right? To make the reader think it is not hard to do.

  

  Janet Malcolm
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• My grandmother, whom I adored, and who partly raised me, loved Liberace, and she watched Liberace every afternoon, and when she watched Liberace, she'd get dressed up and put on makeup because I think she thought if she could see Liberace, Liberace could see her.

  

  Alan Furst
  • Up
  • She
  • Makeup

• One thing is certain: Yelling at someone who is already out of control can only lead to further dysregulation. Just as your dog cowers if you shout and wags his tail when you speak in a high singsong, we humans respond to harsh voices with fear, anger, or shutdown and to playful tones by opening up and relaxing. We simply cannot help but respond to these indicators of safety or danger.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Control
  • Danger
  • Voices

• But you can't really know your audiences so well.

  

  Peter Maxwell Davies

• If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.

  

  Al Bernstein