I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
~By Manuel Puig ~
There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.
~By Erica Jong ~
It has no enforceable standards to stop a union from conspiring with employers to keep another stronger union out or from negotiating contracts with lower pay and standards that members of another union have spent a lifetime establishing.
~By Andy Stern ~
To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.
~By Suzanne Vega ~
The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
~By Will Durant ~
An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.
~By Erwin Schrodinger ~
It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due.
~By Robert Sheckley ~
If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
I am appreciative of the Bush administration's commitment to fair trade by looking at the facts in this case and ruling affirmatively for the implementation of quotas in this specific category.
~By Howard Coble ~
We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.
~By Charles Francis Richter ~
A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
I never thought about being on a series before. It seemed like such a big commitment. But I love going to work every day. This is not about ego, it's about work, and that's refreshing in this town.
~By Lauren Ambrose ~
Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.
~By Maggie Gallagher ~
I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
~By Giorgos Seferis ~
Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.
~By John Milius ~
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
~By Ivan Turgenev ~
My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.
~By Thomas Kyd ~
I don't like staying in hotels. I like to be in my own bed. San Diego as a city is really awesome. The only hard part of it for me is that I'm away from my family and my house. But as far as shooting down there, we get amazing locations, and the crew is really, really stellar down there. They are really fun.
~By Kristen Bell ~
San Diego walked away with just a scratch.
~By Susan Davis ~
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
~By Arnold Bennett ~
If Bill was all id, Hillary is all superego.
~By Rich Lowry ~
When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.
~By Marc Maron ~
I'm not a big fan of those who are egotistical and so outspoken.
~By Eric Heiden ~
Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!
~By Jonathan Davis ~
First of all, I think the Saudis are deeply concerned about the collapse of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the resumption of conflict.
~By Brent Scowcroft ~
The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.
~By Ernst Mach ~
I think maybe Mr. Sinise and Mr. Bacon have slightly bigger egos than I do.
~By Eric Roberts ~
Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government.
~By Donald Sutherland ~
Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.
~By Garrison Keillor ~
I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career.
~By Billie Burke ~
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
~By Sydney J. Harris ~
A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.
~By Roseanne Barr ~
In the very beginning we were a real tight family but now it's different. You know, toward the end, we had separate limos, stuff like that. It's hard to get six giant egos in the same place.
~By Bill Kreutzmann ~
You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.
~By Robert Morgan ~
I'm very accessible. I don't get into this ego thing.
~By Scott Hamilton ~
Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn't remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me.
~By Andy Partridge ~
At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.
~By Mercedes McCambridge ~
The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
~By Harold S. Geneen ~
A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and claim to self-rule, and force the Iraqi government to take responsibility for itself and its citizens.
~By Peter DeFazio ~
I tend to not want to put labels or categories on the music, only because people come with preconceived ideas about what they're going to hear, or won't come for this reason.
~By Chuck Mangione ~
My performances have finally caught up with my ego.
~By Ato Boldon ~
For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.
~By Deborah Tannen ~
The Company of Wolves doesn't belong in any category, so it's difficult to prepare an audience for it. It's not a horror film, it's not a fantasy film, it's not a children's film - so what is it?
~By Neil Jordan ~
I have a big family and had to move them all from the coast of Oregon to New York three times for the workshops and for the actual production itself, which had about a four month development rehearsal schedule.
~By Gregory Harrison ~
And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, vague idea, and through the years and through the negotiations of getting the permit, you see that every detail is now clarified.
~By Christo ~
It is characteristic of the epistemological tradition to present us with partial scenarios and then to demand whole or categorical answers as it were.
~By Avrum Stroll ~
I have to say that it was a very strange experience when, later in life, I represented Byron Scott and was negotiating with West - whose picture I used to have over my bed! That took some getting used to.
~By Leigh Steinberg ~
And the two planes that were taking the band and crew that we had taken out to San Diego were flying out after the show. And so I was never supposed to be on that plane.
~By Reba McEntire ~
Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.
~By Richard Cobden ~
Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.
~By Walter Cronkite ~
The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification with and attachment to being female. And that's ultimately all ego.
~By Andrew Cohen ~
No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.
~By Toni Morrison ~
But so long as we can keep this crew of fantastic people together and can continue to make real breakthrough films in this category, as well as characters that stay true to what we've done in this first film, I'd be more than happy to be a part of it.
~By Brandon Routh ~
In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.
~By John Buchanan Robinson ~
And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into.
~By Dave Brubeck ~
Over the past decade, prescribing information has grown more and more complex, more and more dense and more difficult to negotiate.
~By Andrew von Eschenbach ~
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
~By John Cheever ~
Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.
~By Robert Jay Lifton ~
Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.
~By Boutros Boutros Ghali ~
As far as the sovereignty of Bosnia-Hercegovina is concerned we agreed to have limited sovereignty for a limited time and that is clear from the Dayton Agreement.
~By Alija Izetbegovic ~
For me, I have no political ego in this thing with respect to any other leader and what they might feel is appropriate or necessary in what they're going to try to do... We need everybody on the front lines.
~By Marc Morial ~
In 1974, the modeling world changed. Jerry Ford and my lawyer negotiated the deal for the first exclusive contract in modeling history.
~By Lauren Hutton ~
My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.
~By Loretta Lynn ~
I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
~By Twyla Tharp ~
The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good.
~By Allan Sloan ~
I can tell you categorically that we at 60 Minutes did not pay Michael Jackson one cent.
~By Don Hewitt ~
If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
~By Alexander Smith ~
Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
~By Max Planck ~
Anytime there is a struggle between doing what is actually right and doing what seems right, then your ego is interfering with your decision.
~By Darren L. Johnson ~
The ego constantly competes with the spirit for control over your inner voice.
~By Darren L. Johnson ~
It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.
~By Henry Fonda ~
However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted.
~By Hideki Tojo ~
Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.
~By John Fahey ~
Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!
~By Pat Riley ~
I was a bit worried coming back to the Premiership from America, but I have been pleased with my form, and the interest I have received has been good for my ego. I have no worries about my fitness, and I am really looking forward to the season starting now.
~By Richard Gough ~
Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
~By Ernest Bevin ~
And it turned out that the Roberts Commission did not fully utilize the information available and that it came to conclusions which were I think quite short sighted and, indeed, in some cases, scapegoated individuals.
~By Richard Ben Veniste ~
As long as the sun rises over Ontario and sets over the Pacific, I will dedicate myself to bringing the people of Oregon what they want and need most - an era of hope, change, and economic renewal.
~By Ted Kulongoski ~
A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy.
~By Ted Kulongoski ~
There is only so much negotiating and maneuvering that can be done while the aircraft is under siege in mid-air. Therefore, the best way to put a stop to hijacking is by having high levels of security implemented by qualified and trained personnel both on the ground and in the air.
~By Isaac Yeffet ~
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
~By Nelson Mandela ~
That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.
~By Bainbridge Colby ~
The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of setting out from St. Joseph's farther to the northward.
~By Francis Parkman ~
I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it.
~By Valerie Harper ~
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
~By Manuel Puig ~
The developing countries must be able to take a more active part in trade negotiations, through technical assistance and support from the developed countries.
~By Anna Lindh ~
This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.
~By David Brooks ~
One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.
~By Faye Wattleton ~
The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
~By George Eliot ~
A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation.
~By Ann Druyan ~
There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.
~By Meryl Streep ~
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
~By Dean Acheson ~
Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken.
~By Joe Rogan ~
It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation with the U.N. about obligations that they undertook in 1991.
~By Condoleezza Rice ~
Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing.
~By Mike Simpson ~
By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers.
~By Mercy Otis Warren ~
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