Joseph Epstein Quotes

I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.

Joseph Epstein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 9, 1937

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Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.

Jeremy Lin

CollegeStereotypesOutComingGoing

My mom used to say that if someone woke her up in the middle of the night and asked how old she was, she'd answer 27. Hearing her, I'd think, 'That's ridiculous; your job as my mom is to be old.'

Jennifer Egan

JobMomNightThinkSomeoneSay

I find that on most films it's very difficult to have a backlit movie in an exterior.

Robert Richardson

FindDifficultMostMovieVery

I don't invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

Robert Kiyosaki

IdeasPrettyBecauseIdeaDozen

Working with David Lynch was like taking a bullet. A gun at you. 'Lost Highway' is, I think, one of the best films I've ever been in. It'll endure a long, long time.

Robert Loggia

TimeBestGunThinkLongYou

There can be no activist judges from any political party.

Mauricio Macri

PoliticalPartyJudgesActivistAny

Just by nature, I think in comedy. I think in sketches and what have you. In every drama or action movie I've been in, I have to make a concerted effort not to turn it into a comedy. Every shot, before action is called and after cut is called, I'm usually in some goofy head space. It feels natural to me.

Michael Jai White

NatureEffortSpaceMeActionThink

The Internet has turned everybody into a global person, whether they know it or not.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

InternetPersonKnowGlobalTurned

Regarding themselves as irreplaceable, both Lenin and Stalin tried in different ways to destroy their successors - Lenin through a testament that attacked Stalin and Trotsky, Stalin through purges culminating in the Doctors' Plot of 1953.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

ThroughDestroyIrreplaceablePlot

Exercising will make you look better, feel stronger, and fill you with boundless energy. Staying fit will even make you happier.

Robin S. Sharma

EnergyBetterStrongerYouLookFit

To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them.

Ron Suskind

PowerSimplePeopleMeStrategyNew

Classics isn't about the ancient world. It's partly about the ancient world, but it's about our conversation. It's how we try to talk to antiquity.

Mary Beard

WorldConversationTryTalkAncient

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