Rumaan Alam Quotes

Checking your phone during dinner is no less rude than reading 'People' during dinner, which I once saw a woman do at Blue Ribbon Brooklyn as she dined with her husband/boyfriend/whatever.

Rumaan Alam

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WomanBluePeopleDinnerReading

To me, our music is like Jamaican stuff - if they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not for them if they can't understand it.

Joe Strummer

MusicMeUnderstandLikeStuffHear

When documents were analog, they were protected by government laws against unreasonable search and seizure. When they live in the cloud... the ground is shifting.

John Battelle

LiveGovernmentSearchCloudGround

Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God.

Jeremy Lin

GodMountainEndYouSometimesUp

The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids.

Angelina Jolie

LifeGoodHappyGood And EvilEvil

The thought of my children growing up in an America with less freedom, less opportunity, and a lower standard of living is a long-term pain I cannot and will not bear.

Jeb Hensarling

OpportunityFreedomChildrenPain

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

Merlin Olsen

ManWorldLiesHeSomePart

I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.

Stanley Tucci

TimeHotelLongLong TimeOldUp

I want to believe that while we may sometimes read in the misguided pursuit of preserving our separation, there is a greater impulse inside us that compels us to read in search of the common heart.

Sue Monk Kidd

HeartBelieveSearchSometimesWant

Everybody is welcome to come to dinner, but there's going to be the adult table and the kids' table. Whiny people who want to throw food and make noise and interrupt and be rude and act like children, they can sit at the kids' table.

Matt Bevin

ChildrenFoodWelcomePeopleDinner

Any decent actor knows you can't judge the character you're playing.

Ross Lynch

CharacterJudgeYouActorPlaying

When it comes to dating, I'm straightforward and traditional with a twist.

Luke Pasqualino

DatingStraightforwardTwist

I learned to read music when I was 10 and did piano and took lessons.

Chris Cornell

MusicPianoReadLessonsDidTook

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