Serge Schmemann Quotes

Like many a Yank before me, I have tried to explain to European friends that Americans actually know soccer quite well, that many of us played it in school and college, but that, well, we just don't find it quite as exciting as, say, what we call football.

Serge Schmemann

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: April 12, 1945

Topics

FootballSchoolCollegeMeFriends

I love 'Cosmo,' but I gave it everything I had.

Joanna Coles

LoveEverythingI LoveGaveHad

I am a traditional man. I'm a product of a traditional man. He sacrificed everything for his family.

Andy Garcia

FamilyManI AmProductEverything

There's something inimical about the camera and song.

Stephen Sondheim

SongCameraSomethingAbout

Everybody likes to win.

Robert Duvall

WinEverybodyLikes

I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.

Mary Leakey

SchoolNeverSingleClearlyWould

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

Douglas Adams

EndGoNeedAlwaysUpWhere

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

Dean Ween

GoodYouWriteDozenSongsLeast

In Hollywood, you can't say anything bad about anybody or everyone is going to attack you. It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like.

Chloe Sevigny

BusinessHappyFaceYouBadSay

In the documentary 'Facing Ali,' nearly half the fighters involved required subtitles despite speaking English, their speech slurred by the physical toll of their ring lives. This was their reward for testing their furthermost physical and mental boundaries.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

SpeechRewardRingBoundariesMental

I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.

Alison Gopnik

LoveParentingAdviceAttentionPay

To me, the 90's signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands.

Shane West

BeginningMeEndBoyRockGangsta

When Jack White called and wanted me to do a video and play mandolin with The Raconteurs, I didn't know anything about The Raconteurs at that time.

Ricky Skaggs

TimeMeWhitePlayKnowAnything

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