Mark Helprin Though builders may build, in the main they follow the plans of architects. Teachers teach, but they must have a text. Politicians govern, but only upon the flow of commentary that raises them up or casts them down. – Mark Helprin Architects Quotes Build Quotes Builders Quotes Casts Quotes Commentary Quotes Flow Quotes Follow Quotes Govern Quotes Main Quotes Plans Quotes Politicians Quotes Raises Quotes Teach Quotes Teachers Quotes I’m sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can’t be literary. To assert, as some have, that illegal immigrants do not depress wages because they do the jobs Americans refuse is the kind of nonsense economists speak when they strain to be counterintuitive. It is similar to saying that cheap imports do not hold down prices.
Eddie Griffin People are just people; the only thing that’s different is the form of government that leads them astray. – Eddie Griffin
Leah Remini Oddly, moving to L.A. had nothing to do with me wanting to be an actress. My mother had a friend who was willing to take us in for a month until we could get on our feet. So we lived on her floor. It was pretty traumatic, but I found my strength through my mother in that time because she never once made us feel like we wouldn’t be OK. – Leah Remini
ChanceKevin Hart I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance. – Kevin Hart
Kelvin Sampson I’m 50 years old and been a college coach for 23 years, but after 12 years, no matter where you are, there are ups and downs. – Kelvin Sampson
Christopher Guest People want me to be funny all the time. They think I’m being funny no matter what I say or do and that’s not the case. – Christopher Guest
Gaby Hoffmann I don’t revisit anything unless there’s a really good occasion, like BAM screened ‘This Is My Life’, with Lena Dunham and Nora Ephron before she died. It also screened ‘Uncle Buck’, so I took my niece. I don’t have a TV, so I don’t happen upon old movies like you would if you had cable. – Gaby Hoffmann
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