Emily Weiss Quotes

French pharmacies probably feel like CVS to French people, but to me, they feel like a real-life version of 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.'

Emily Weiss

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PeopleMeChocolateFeelLike

To be an entertainer, you gotta be a little gutsy, a little egotistical, so you have to pull back sometimes when people say, 'Well, he's stuck-up.' 'Stuck-up' is only another word for self-conscious.

Johnny Carson

PeopleYouBackSometimesSayWell

It's undeniable that what we are taught as a culture to believe about disability is at odds with traditional notions of masculinity.

Stella Young

CultureBelieveDisabilityOdds

Out of all the ridiculous religion stories - which are greatly, wonderfully ridiculous - the silliest one I've ever heard is, 'Yeah, there's this big, giant universe, and it's expanding, and it's all going to collapse on itself, and we're all just here, just 'cuz. Just 'cuz.' That to me, is the most ridiculous explanation ever.

Trey Parker

ReligionMeUniverseRidiculousOut

A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none.

Robert E. Lee

GovernmentPeopleMeSwordWill

People change. I wouldn't like to be accountable for the interviews I've done, or the person I was when I was 20, 21.

Robbie Williams

ChangePeoplePeople ChangePerson

Some stimulus is not a bad thing.

Ron Johnson

BadSomeThingBad ThingStimulus

For people who are at the bottom economically, the world is becoming a harder and harder place. And yet the incentives to become rich are so great because enormous amounts of wealth are being accumulated. And so those two things, that carrot and stick, are beating people along this trajectory of trying desperately to move up in the world.

Mohsin Hamid

GreatPeopleWorldRichTryingUp

I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.

Bruce Springsteen

MyselfKnowAlwaysLifetimeSaw

Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.

Susan Orlean

MeWritingFlyShortLongAttention

Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up.

Pete Earley

CharacterSchoolFeelGivingFind

It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.

Pete Townshend

GoodPerformanceBackLightsRock

We have no desire to continue a sanctions war, trading blows.

Sergei Lavrov

WarDesireContinueTradingBlows

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