Peter Greenaway Quotes

If you think about it, most cinema is built along 19th-century models. You would hardly think that the cinema had discovered James Joyce sometimes.

Peter Greenaway

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ThinkYouCinemaSometimesAlong

I would say some of the food I talk about that I really enjoy, like cake and bacon, I eat a lot less than I portray in my act. But that stuff that I dislike, it's pretty sincere.

Jim Gaffigan

FoodCakeEnjoySayTalkEat

In some cases I feel like they haven't appreciated enough that growing up doesn't mean boring and old and not full of life. I like to talk about that also.

Jody Watley

LifeGrowing UpFeelEnoughGrowing

What you don't do is contacting someone you haven't reached out for 10 years and asking for money.

John Quelch

MoneySomeoneYouYearsOutAsking

A friend of mine has a son who became deaf through meningitis. He called me one spring and asked me to keep a week out of my schedule because he wanted to start a school for deaf kids. I wanted to help.

Stan Mikita

FriendSonSchoolSpringMeStart

We now have poured in an enormous amount of resources into cancer. The National Cancer Institute Project, you know, runs about $5 billion a year. That's a large amount of money, but let's not be grandiose about the amount of money we're actually spending on a problem that is attacking us at the most fundamental level of the human species.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

MoneyProblemYearYouKnowNow

I'm baffled by the people who say, 'I'm just not going to vote.'

Tracee Ellis Ross

PeopleSayVoteGoingJustWho

Anybody who's lived in the ghetto knows that you don't move during the daytime. Here's why: You don't want anyone to know you're leaving, and you don't want anyone knowing where you're going.

Tracy Morgan

YouGhettoKnowWantLeavingWhy

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.

Mason Cooley

HateRestMoreUsEvenThan

I love Los Angeles. I love when people make fun of it. I think, 'Good, don't come.' All the jokes about it feel out of date.

Mary McCormack

LoveGoodFunPeopleThinkFeel

The idea that owning a gun in America was an individual right only dates to the 1980s.

Jay Parini

GunAmericaRightIndividualIdea

I'd like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war - a cool place where everyone could live.

Dionne Warwick

LiveStressPainWarCoolWorld

I like Stevie Wonder as my favorite non-pianist pianist. I mean, I shouldn't call him a non-pianist, because he's really a great pianist, but he doesn't feature it that much - he uses his keyboards and his piano technique to support his great songs and so forth, but he can really blow.

Chick Corea

GreatSupportWonderMeanHimPiano

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