Carol Kane Quotes

I always wanted to be a good actress and a serious actress. I wasn't in the profession to, quote-unquote, meet the stars.

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• I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Girl
  • Fighting
  • Little

• What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Desire
  • Space
  • Innovation

• I think my numbers speak for themselves.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Think
  • Speak
  • Numbers

• My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Passion

• I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Time
  • May
  • Training

• I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Up
  • New
  • Rich

• I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Play
  • Proud
  • Prejudice

• College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • College
  • Struggle
  • Debt

• Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

  

  Carlos Drummond de Andrade
  • Heart
  • Book
  • Easy

• I'm a dork!

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Dork

• I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Today
  • Reality
  • Everybody

• People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Good
  • Light

• There are a lot of teams that don't want to play, that only want to defend against Barcelona, and that makes it difficult. We're always looking for the open space. A lot of times we'll face six defenders and four midfielders.

  

  Xavi
  • Space
  • Play
  • Looking

• We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Change
  • Democracy
  • Dirty

• We ought to be able to forgo the constant need to raise money and just focus on working together to solve the problems this country faces.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Country
  • Money
  • Together

• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Style

• White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

  

  Ma Rainey
  • Know
  • White
  • Blues

• I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • World
  • Happy
  • Best

• I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.

  

  Brian Baumgartner
  • Life

• I was born with the confidence of an 89-year-old man. So it's strange when people ask, 'What's it like being a female comedian?' It never occurred to me that I'd be limited as a woman - that I couldn't be a scientist, a doctor, or anything I wanted.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • People
  • Confidence

• It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get to be so good at it suddenly?

  

  Neil Innes
  • Good

• What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?

  

  Johann Georg Hamann
  • Good
  • Home
  • Freedom

• Next time you open the paper, and you see an intellectual property decision, a telecoms decision, it's not about something small and technical. It is about the future of the freedom to be as social beings with each other, and the way information, knowledge and culture will be produced.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Time
  • Future
  • Culture

• I always wanted to be a good actress and a serious actress. I wasn't in the profession to, quote-unquote, meet the stars.

  

  Carol Kane
  • Good
  • Serious