Adam Gopnik Quotes

Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.

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• Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Think
  • Want
  • Smile

• Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

  

  E. B. White
  • Genius
  • More
  • Intelligence

• Life in California is beautiful.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • California

• Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Want
  • Church
  • Religion

• People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.

  

  Sam Neill
  • People
  • Movie
  • Star

• Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Society
  • Jesus
  • Disrespect

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Tears
  • Walk

• My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Together

• The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Feeling
  • Space
  • Universe

• I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Business
  • Sweet

• I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Think
  • Strength
  • Greatest

• If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Matter
  • Find
  • Injury

• I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Up
  • Time
  • Age

• There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Education
  • Will
  • Watch

• With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Friends
  • Try

• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Challenge
  • Acting
  • Loved

• I didn't even recall being on the DB sessions until Herbie Flowers reminded me a couple of years ago.

  

  Jim Sullivan
  • Couple

• Our external environment no longer seems to have any firm boundaries, any limits, or any positive cues about when to stop consuming anything. I mean, there is a reason that people get fat - it's easy and cheap to get high-calorie, tasty food.

  

  Bob Harper
  • People
  • High
  • Food

• I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Life
  • Power
  • Control

• Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.

  

  David Guterson

• One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Love
  • Like
  • Compassion

• Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.

  

  Adam Gopnik
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