Taraneh Alidoosti Quotes & Sayings

I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick. — Ike Barinholtz

The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flowby the tilt of the social landscape. — Eric Hoffer

I guess my poems feel to me a bit like they are doing something in relation to experience, i.e. time. — Matthew Zapruder

And that's when you learned, your top fund-raiser was a murder suspect. — Roy Payne

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing. — Eduardo Galeano

Charity fits the economy of scarcity, because it supports the blasphemous myth that the rich are rich because they deserve to be, and their riches are theirs to deal with as they please. With such charity, we are not worthy to tell the story of manna in the wilderness, to pretend to eat together at the Lord's Supper, or claim the Year of Jubilee as our own. — Michael Rhodes

I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular. — Errol Morris

Washington is a place where good ideas go to die. — Barack Obama

I was taught to do math and read at the same time. So you're six years old, you're reading 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' and it becomes rapidly obvious that there are only two kinds of men in the world: dwarves and Prince Charmings. And the odds are seven is to one against your finding the prince. That's why little girls don't do math. — Emily Levine

The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of thingsstop being a glass. Become a lake. — Mark Nepo

Sitcoms are like summer stock. You put it up in three days, and then you do it in front of an audience, so it's a really great transition from theatre into camera work. — Susan Egan

I realize that R&B is what I do best, and I'm comfortable with that. — Stephanie Mills

I think that more diversity is a good thing, and fresh points of view articulated by people who are committed to excellence in journalism is a beneficial change in the American media landscape. — Al Gore