Cynthia Ozick Quotes

Among contemporaries, I hugely admire Alice Munro, our Chekhov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and John Updike, American masters all. I also believe that the voice of Gordon Lish is astoundingly original and sorrowful.

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• Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Want
  • Success
  • Successful

• I use honey to condition my hair and eggs for protein. Also, mayonnaise and olive oil are great options for keeping it moisturized.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Great
  • Hair
  • Oil

• To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Development
  • Ignore
  • Product

• You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.

  

  G-Eazy
  • You
  • Cool
  • Ability

• Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Parents
  • Hand
  • Feel

• I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Up
  • Period
  • Movies

• As a Colombian, the only way I can relate to my country is through suffering. I hope that my children and my grandchildren will relate to the beautiful country in a way that it is positive and loving.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Country
  • Children
  • Hope

• Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.

  

  Gary North
  • Law
  • Jesus
  • Biblical

• I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Just

• We can overcome evil with greater good.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Overcome

• Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Original
  • Both

• Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • School
  • Lost
  • Village

• I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Fun
  • Gold
  • Collecting

• Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Time
  • Government
  • Better

• There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • Business
  • Simple

• I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Money
  • Change
  • Husband

• When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Up
  • Want
  • Design

• Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and terrorists are bad people. The ideals of these groups are in opposition to everything our nation stands for and everything that holds true to our founding principles. Their hatred of people dissimilar to them is un-American, and it should not be tolerated under any circumstances.

  

  Markwayne Mullin
  • People
  • American
  • Bad

• I would love to believe that my political judgment is impeccable, but it's not.

  

  Leo Varadkar
  • Believe
  • Political

• African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.

  

  Elijah Cummings
  • Women
  • American

• It's great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you're leaving your other life behind.

  

  Anna Paquin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Earth

• Among contemporaries, I hugely admire Alice Munro, our Chekhov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and John Updike, American masters all. I also believe that the voice of Gordon Lish is astoundingly original and sorrowful.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • Believe
  • American