Anne Roiphe Quotes

When I grew up, you needed to have straight hair. It's symbolic of needing to be like everyone else, needing to look like everyone else. And what that meant was looking like the dominant ruling class in America.

Anne Roiphe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: December 25, 1935

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The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience.

Jesse Eisenberg

MeDoingMomentsTablePlayWhere

There are people I've blocked for a long time who will still respond to every single person that replies positively to me on Twitter. I have quite a few cyber-stalkers like that.

Anita Sarkeesian

TimePeopleMeLongPersonWill

We ask for way too much stuff - way too much stuff. You got a job making $100 a year and bought a house for $3 million. Talking about, 'I don't know what happened with the payment.'

Sinbad

JobTalkingYearYouHouseToo Much

I'm one of those artists that doesn't actually hate my old hits. I love Boston music. I really like 'More than a Feeling.' After playing it to myself in a basement for such a long time, I'm happy to do it out on stage.

Tom Scholz

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The Iron Dome system is a proven way for Israel to defend its citizens from hostile threats and will advance missile defense technology for us and other allies.

Rob Portman

TechnologyWillWayDefendSystem

People are always asking me in interviews, 'What do you think of foreign affairs?' I just say, 'I've had a few.'

Dolly Parton

PeopleMeThinkYouSayAsking

Nobody expects that just because they've made computers better they're going to give them to you free.

Dean Kamen

FreeComputersBetterYouNobody

Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.

Cliff Burton

ChangeDoingTryingWhyWayBig

It was really important for me to create fun and trendy pieces for the plus-size market.

Ashley Nell Tipton

FunMeCreateImportantPieces

Philly is more East Coast than Pittsburgh. It's closer to New Jersey and New York, so the vibe is way more fast-paced.

Wiz Khalifa

New YorkNewWayMoreJerseyVibe

A lot of my friends, when I was 14 or 15, they were all up and down, wanting to go out on a Friday night, and my dad had me working really late on Fridays and Saturday mornings and even on Sunday mornings. And when I'd finished all that, we used to spend the rest of the time talking about boxing.

Tyson Fury

TimeMeNightRestFridayTalking

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, 'Oh, I forgot that bit,' then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you've figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

Richard P. Feynman

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