Adam Gopnik Quotes

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• I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Rock
  • Like
  • More

• A new untruth is better than an old truth.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Truth
  • Better
  • Truth Is

• I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Want
  • Place
  • Lady

• In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Mind
  • Family
  • Worry

• As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Character
  • Child

• Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Together
  • Dark
  • Chocolate

• Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.

  

  Banks
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.

  

  Barry Diller
  • You
  • Now
  • Stock

• You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Done
  • Earth

• I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Way
  • Never
  • Air

• How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Woman

• I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Pretty
  • Everything
  • Taste

• I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Love
  • Character
  • Find

• Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Turn
  • Angels
  • Hierarchy

• Any girl who likes watching movies would like to work in them and would want to do all of that. I'm also one of them. But people know me for badminton and love me for it. So I'd stick to it right now. But maybe after badminton, I'll think about it.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • People
  • Work
  • Girl

• There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Years
  • Evidence
  • Over

• In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Believe
  • Food
  • Me

• There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Politics
  • Radio
  • Getting

• The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Wishes

• I'm one of those girls that, day-to-day, I'm in trainers or Converse. I have about 50 pairs of trainers, so when I get the chance to dress up, I will definitely be in heels. 100 percent. I might take some battered Converse in my bag to wear at the after-party when my feet are tired.

  

  Bel Powley
  • Up
  • Party
  • Tired

• One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly." ~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Up
  • World
  • American

• I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Play
  • Feel
  • Happen

• In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Food
  • California
  • Vote

• I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Information