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Alice Hoffman Quotes

You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this.

Alice Hoffman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: March 16, 1952

Topics

Beautiful Job Feel You Guilty Try

Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with my art history degree, I decided to go work at Comedy Central as a temp.

Jessi Klein

Work History Art College Comedy Go

I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

Anjelica Huston

Humor Gentle Big Like Really

President Ronald Reagan used to speak of the Soviet constitution, and he noted that it purported to grant wonderful rights of all sorts to people. But those rights were empty promises, because that system did not have an independent judiciary to uphold the rule of law and enforce those rights.

John Roberts

People Law Promises Speak President

It's difficult for me to really temper my personality, but I am trying to be a little more sensible about it. If I really lose my temper, I go to my room and scream and shout, but I try not to lose it on people any more. I've never said something mean just like that. I've only said things in retaliation.

Sonam Kapoor

Personality I Am People Me Lose Go

I had failed the psychological profiling of a terrorist. The central committee of the Red Brigades had judged me too single-minded and too opinionated to become a good terrorist.

Loretta Napoleoni

Good Red Me Become Committee Judged

Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles.

Joshua Foer

Flaws New Principles Natural Middle

Whether somebody think badly of me, whether somebody don't feel that I should be doing this or I should be doing that way, I don't really care. Whether they think that my fatigue is being laid, legs are skinny, I don't care.

Deontay Wilder

Me Think Care Feel Doing Way

When I first met the survivors of the Indianapolis in 1999 while writing a book about them, their story - the last major action of World War II - was rarely mentioned in high school textbooks. This is despite the fact that, before its torpedoing, the ship had delivered components of the atomic bomb Little Boy to Tinian Island.

Doug Stanton

School War Writing World Book Story

I was born in New York City, along with a twin sister. I am five minutes older than Emily. It was Emily, for reasons no one knows - she certainly doesn't - who called me Avi. It stuck. It's the only name I use now.

Avi

I Am New York City Me Sister Name

I'm a bold man. I throw caution to the wind.

Seth Meyers

Man Wind Bold Caution Throw

I am like a kid. I tell my family and friends I'm like a kid.

Shah Rukh Khan

Family I Am Friends Kid Tell Like

If you believe, as we believe, that diversity leads to better products, and we're all about making products that enrich people's lives, then you obviously put a ton of energy behind diversity the same way you would put a ton of energy behind anything else that is truly important.

Tim Cook

Diversity People Believe Energy You