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Michael Mandelbaum Quotes

Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.

Michael Mandelbaum

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american

Topics

Value City World Buildings Monuments

We have no stronger ally anywhere in the world than Israel.

John Boehner

World Stronger Israel Than Ally

It's like a weird mindset to wake up and want to be wanted. Like, I want to be wanted so much already... and I'm so greedy for other people's desire that I have to really force myself to have some shame about it and some control, neither of which come easily to me.

Jenny Zhang

Myself People Me Control Wake Up

Chris Boardman was my first teammate and my first roommate. I saw him finish his career with an hour record and thought, 'Yeh, what a way to go out!'

Jens Voigt

Thought Career Go Way First Finish

You show a movie to your friends when you're working on it, but you don't have any real objectivity. You just don't know. So that moment when it's shown for the very first time at Sundance, it's just terrifying. I'm so anxious. And then every screening is different.

Jeff Baena

Time Moment Friends You Know First

I'll be with The Goat until the fall. Then I've been given three plays to look at and there have been a couple of films have come over the desk. I will probably not do either one of them.

Mercedes Ruehl

Fall Look Desk Three Will Over

Louise Bonnet is a Los Angeles-based painter of round, fleshy, almost obscene shapes and people. But hers is a very clean, friendly cartoon world, so there's this tension between harmlessness and perversion that is totally unsettling.

Miranda July

People World Clean Cartoon Tension

But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.

Little Richard

Singing Loud Most Singers Were

Something that I learned from 'Friday Night Lights,' sometimes if you have four or five scenes in an episode, it's not having less than having 10. It's what you do with those scenes.

Jason Katims

Night Friday You Lights Sometimes

I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know.

Douglas Sirk

You Know Set Designer Set Designer

All of this talk of recession offends me. I am delighted that bankers have less money.

Chris O'Dowd

Money I Am Me Talk Recession Less

I actually completely suck at being a bioethicist. What I do is history of medicine and patient advocacy. Patient advocacy is actually the opposite of bioethics, because bioethicists are the people who increasingly set up and justify the systems we patient advocates have to fight.

Alice Dreger

History Fight People Medicine Up

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

Pierre Bayle

Opinion Think Generation Down Pure