Alex Pareene Quotes

The thing with 'The West Wing' is that the fantasy was legitimately better than the reality - these were smarter, better people than their real-life counterparts, working together at a better White House than the one we had.

Alex Pareene

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Working TogetherTogetherPeopleWest

It's almost as if a demon might have passed from one host to another.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

MightHostAlmostDemonAnother

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

John Kenneth Galbraith

FaithHopeGreatEconomicsDeep

You had to read what I wrote if you lived in L.A. in 1975 and cared about pop music.

Robert Hilburn

MusicYouLivedPopReadPop Music

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Jean de La Fontaine

StrengthPatiencePassionTimeMore

I love '50s music, all that stuff from the '50s.

Steve Jones

LoveMusicStuffI Love

I used the principles of Kickstarter to make 'She's Gotta Have It.' We filmed that in 1985 to 1986. The final cost was $175,000. I didn't have that money. It was friends, grants, donations. We saved our bottles for the nickel deposit.

Spike Lee

MoneyFriendsPrinciplesSheCost

No one really knows me. People think they know me.

Johnny Thunders

PeopleMeThinkKnowKnowsReally

I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.

Christopher Eccleston

LoveThinkBelongingUniversal

Women in general interest me. I like how women are more liable to talk about real things, personal things.

Chuck Close

WomenMePersonalTalkMoreReal

I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.

Bob Lilly

ChildrenBestParentsMeWorldPush

You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that language is where the other, parallel violence, the cruelty exercised on the body, originates.

Ariel Dorfman

WorldFreeLanguageYouBodyLook

As far as I know, all the presidents know about Area 51. It would almost be impossible for them not to.

Annie Jacobsen

ImpossibleKnowWouldAlmostFar

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