Johann Lamont Quotes

My granny would come out and stay with us in the winter, and we would listen to the reports from the coastal stations and have a discussion in the middle of Glasgow about what the weather was like in Tiree.

Johann Lamont

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WinterWeatherListenDiscussionOut

Our position is that we can sit down and talk to try to solve our problems through dialogue.

Meles Zenawi

ProblemsDownTryTalkDialogueSit

We would like UN resolutions to be enforced, including on Iraq.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

ResolutionsWouldLikeIncludingUN

I didn't realize Oklahoma had so many fine women.

Metta World Peace

WomenRealizeOklahomaFineMany

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Amos Bronson Alcott

FriendshipWorldFriendsTakeUs

It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.

Tommy Rettig

LifeAcceptanceMy LifeRejection

I think when your parents die, it is kind of like a moving sidewalk: you're not just on the sideline and watching them go by. You know, you're going to the same place they are.

Roz Chast

ParentsMovingThinkDieYouPlace

I'd love to go back to Europe in the '20s and '30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement, and Freud and Jung, and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The whole nature of reality was changing and being challenged.

Michael Sheen

NatureLoveBeginningRealityBack

Acting in something that I'm directing... I'm really enjoying it because, if for no other reason, that particular acting is like reading my mind on every single take. It's kind of efficient, for better or worse.

Jason Bateman

MindReadingBetterActingKind

When you're going for a big studio comedy, the joke tally better be pretty high, and you better have some big comedy set pieces. That was one of the issues when I was trying to get 'Swingers' made for the first time, which is that there weren't any broad comedy set pieces.

Jon Favreau

TimeBetterComedyTryingYouHigh

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.

Diane Arbus

ConfidenceControlVictoryWinner

The fact I have an education forms my lyrical style, I'm sure. I studied the social sciences, history, stuff like that. I have an interest in politics, which maybe works its way into the songs in small, subtle ways.

Dean Wareham

EducationHistoryStylePoliticsWay

The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it.

Chico Hamilton

MusicYouKnowNowSayWhy

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