Alexandra Stoddard Quotes

When I was little, I got to pick my hair ribbon from my mother's collection that hung over her dressing-table mirror. I have an entire room of ribbons in my New York apartment.

Alexandra Stoddard

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MotherMirrorNew YorkHairNewHer

I'm one of those guys a lot of people watch, imitate, and then make it seem like they were the ones who did it first.

Jermaine Dupri

PeopleFirstSeemWatchWhoLike

Every time a new rock singer comes out they don't say, 'Are you the new John Lennon?' Every time a new rapper comes out, it's not, 'Are you the new Dre?' I am never sure why this sort of genre, the categorization is so strong. I have not earned the right to be called the young Sinatra, but give me time.

Michael Buble

TimeI AmMeStrongYouYoung

When I was ten, I had a weird cinema party where I invited everyone from my street to come. I pretended I was an usher and tried to sell them all popcorn.

Sophie McShera

WeirdCinemaPartyStreetPopcorn

The most gloomy prognosis about Jewish life is that it will disappear between the two extremes of ultra-Orthodoxy on the one hand and total assimilation on the other. But those are very exaggerated scenarios.

Simon Schama

LifeWillHandTwoJewishDisappear

Almost everybody thinks that the fight is about ideology. Everybody will tell you, 'Well, the fighting is all about the Middle East.' 'Well, it's about Muslims starting jihad.' 'It's about terrorism.' 'It's about this or that.' And no, it's not. It's about money.

Roger Waters

MoneyFightFightingYouTerrorism

I come from the corporate world, where everyone has a five-year plan, but performing arts doesn't work that way; you just kinda do the best job you can with the gig you've got.

Ronny Chieng

WorkBestJobWorldPlanYou

It's a pretty intuitive process, picking the projects that I want to get involved with.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

ProcessWantPrettyInvolvedGet

The book, '12 Rules For Life,' is a very serious book. There's elements of humor in it, but I'm trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it's necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there's hell to pay if you don't do that.

Jordan Peterson

LifeLiveHumorStrugglePeopleYou

I think the qualities I look for in a girl I'd like to be my girlfriend would be the way Lindsay's character is before she becomes a plastic. Very real.

Jonathan Bennett

GirlCharacterThinkLookWayShe

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

Bodhidharma

SuccessFailureMindDependNor

A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.

Brit Marling

ThoughtYouPersonWayFarVery

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

William Hazlitt

ChanceYouActingWillAudience

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