Zander Freedman Quotes

You're a sex symbol," she began.
"Thanks for noticing. ~ Karina Bliss

If you make a mistake, celebrate. ~ Benjamin Zander

South Africa is a country built on possibility. Possibility lies in making a difference and creating value from a situation - without denying that certain issues exist. ~ Benjamin Zander

Freedman and Barnouin reveal the truth in Skinny Bitch, but they encase the truth in lies
women must be skinny to be attractive and being attractive should be a priority
via the typical verbiage of female disempowerment. ~ Kim Socha

...we should distinguish carefully between women's and feminist institutions, remain aware of the costs of racial exclusiveness, and avoid romanticizing the past. ~ Estelle B. Freedman

He had realized that the labels he had been taking so seriously are human inventions
it's all a game. The Number 68 is invented and the A is invented, so we might as well choose to invent something that brightens our life and the lives of the people around us. ~ Benjamin Zander

He's a nice young lad. I'll keep putting him on ... as long as he doesn't tell me any lies. He's back focused and it's great to see. Let's hope he keeps going on from that. ~ Lee Freedman

I've been seeing more and more Gardein soy chicken and soy beef products lately, and they're pretty darn good. ~ Rory Freedman

Having a strategy suggests an ability to look up from the short term and the trivial to view the long term and the essential, to address causes rather than symptoms, to see woods rather than trees. ~ Lawrence Freedman

It's not a question of how much power you can hoard for yourself, but how much you can give away. ~ Benjamin Zander

It's never as good as it feels, and it's never as bad as it seems. ~ Edward Zander

I think the best thing that could happen is that I'll live to be a lot older than my mother lived. ~ Samuel G. Freedman

Always remember rule #6 ... don't take yourself so damn seriously ~ Ben And Rosamund Zander

As Christians learn how self-styled Jews have spent millions of dollars to manufacture the 'Jewish myth' for Christian consumption and that they have done this for economic and political advantage, you will see a tremendous explosion against the Jews. Right thinking Jewish leaders are worried about this, since they see it coming. ~ Benjamin H. Freedman

I have mo prejudice against the Southern people... They are just what we would ben in their situation. If slavery did not now exits amongst them, they wld not inrtoduce it. If it did now exist amongst us, we should not instantly give it up... I surely will not blame them for not doing what I should not know how to do myself. (p52) ~ Russell Freedman

A favorite cooking method? I'm a fan of all of them! Anything that gets a pile of random ingredients into a cruelty-free dish works for me! ~ Rory Freedman

We keep some distance between ourselves when we're not working. I think that's a really good thing. ~ Robin Zander

So many people romanticize writing. And I get it. But I never once wanted to be a writer. ~ Rory Freedman

We're from Rockford, Illinois, but we've always thought international. ~ Robin Zander

And when all feels hopeless, remember that you are in charge of what goes into your body, you don't answer to anyone, and you are allowed to eat anything you want. Often just knowing we can eat whatever we want is enough to keep us from eating whatever we want. We're so rebellious. ~ Rory Freedman

Perhaps not Truths, but stories. We would have ordinary truths and guidance about living and dying, and they would emanate not from some absolute authority or formula but from authority of experience and shared understandings, even negotiated understandings, and from the meanings and wisdom that our discoveries contribute to our shared lives. ~ Diane P. Freedman

So although there is no phoenix here, there is, nonetheless, a fierce, stubborn, wildly insightful, arrogantly honest, crazily committed, and caring human, who will take the heat, the brunt of whatever silver spoon joke you may have, so I can help you have everything you want in your life. And I mean everything. ~ Lauren Handel Zander

Country music is worldwide - it's not just Nashville and Texas. ~ Robin Zander

I woke myself up to make sure I wasn't dreaming, that Mike was really beside me. I kissed the pillow close up near his cheek because I didn't want to wake him. He opened one eye and grinned at me. "Don't waste 'em, kitten. ~ Benedict Freedman

My father was indeed a musician, but he was a weekend warrior. He was a welder, actually, and worked all his life at the Ironworks in Beloit Wisconsin, and he played in a swing band on weekends. ~ Robin Zander

It is the tuning of the universe ... It's as if at the beginning of the symphony God turns up the volume just a tiny bit. ~ Benjamin Zander

In the measurement world, you set a goal and strive for it. In the universe of possibility, you set the context and let life unfold. ~ Benjamin Zander

Early on, I was into David Bowie. Then someone in the band suggested I try a Bryan Ferry type of thing. That's when I started wearing three-piece suits. It wasn't unnatural for me. ~ Robin Zander

You see, the world is as big as an elephant or small as a grain of sand, depending on you. You can let it stomp you, gore you, swallow you up. Or you can let it slip into your shell and turn into a pearl." -- Benjamin East ~ Jonathan Freedman

It's rare that anybody gets in the Hall of Fame, and to be nominated is good enough for me. ~ Robin Zander

I'd been here before. Not to this Freedman Town, but to plenty of others. I've been all over the North, and every northern city has a Freedman Town. New York City's got a few, and Chicago's got more than a few. Baltimore, Washington. The manumitted have got to go somewhere, and the world doesn't give them a lot of options. The details are different - some of 'em are built on a high-rise model, bent towers clustered around courtyards, crammed to the gills with the poorest of the poor, living hard, the forgotten children of forgotten children. Some are like this one, blocks and blocks of small ramshackle homes, no sidewalks along narrow roads with the concrete worn and blasted through, the yards between the houses as weed-choked as vacant lots. Ivy growing in wild overlapping networks, engulfing the lower stories and sending menacing tendrils into upstairs windows. Gutters dangling or cracked, porches falling. ~ Ben H. Winters

In the struggle for the soul of American Jewry, the Orthodox model has triumphed. ~ Samuel G. Freedman

Feminism is a belief that although women and men are inherently of equal worth, most societies privilege men as a group. As a result, social movements are necessary to achieve political equality between women and men, with the understanding that gender always intersects with other social hierarchies. ~ Estelle Freedman

From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen. ~ Frederick Douglass

That's means you're mine. Mine to care for." He ran his thumb over her full lower lip. "Mine to fuck." He leaned forward, his mouth an inch from hers. "And mine to protect. Don't forget that." Zander deVries ~ Cherise Sinclair

DON'T BE FOOLED BY ADVERTISING JARGON: The terms "all-natural" "fresh," and "no additives" carry little weight. Since these terms are loosely regulated by the FDA, they are tossed around like dollar bills in a strip club. ~ Rory Freedman Freedman

In the twenty-first century, we use a nineteenth-century school model with twentieth-century values. There's clearly something wrong with this picture. ~ Zander Sherman

Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet. ~ Benjamin Zander

Giving an A is a fundamental, paradigmatic shift toward the realization that it is all invented - the A is invented and the Number 68 is invented, and so are all the judgments in between. Some readers might conclude that our practice is merely an exercise in "putting a positive spin" on a negative opinion, or "thinking the best of someone," and "letting bygones be bygones." But that is not it at all. No behavior of the person to whom you assign an A need be whitewashed by that grade, and no action is so bad that behind it you cannot recognize a human being to whom you can speak the truth. You can grant the proverbial ax murderer an A by addressing him as a person who knows he has forfeited his humanity and lost all control, and you can give your sullen, lazy, secretive teenager an A, and she will still at that moment be sleeping the morning away. When she awakes, however, the conversation between you and her will go a little differently because she will have become for you a person whose true nature is to participate - however blocked she may be. And you will know you are communicating with her, even if you see that she is tongue-tied or too confused to answer you just then.

When we give an A we can be open to a perspective different from our own. For after all, it is only to a person to whom you have granted an A that you will really listen, and it is in that rare instance when you have ears for another person that you can truly appreciate a fresh point of view. ~ Rosamund Stone Zander

Everybody has a country side to them, as I do. ~ Robin Zander

She had been feeling it more and more lately. The walls were closing in around her. The emptiness, the thoughts hidden behind thick walls of work. The unfathomable futility of it all. ~ Joakim Zander

Kitten, you are the beat to my deadened heart, the light of my soul-less soul. You are seriously the only one that was ever made just for me. You are my 'light' – my everything. You are mine." - Zander to Sylver ~ Mel Ballew

Would you think of somebody who you adore, who's no longer there? A beloved grandmother, a lover - somebody in your life who you love with all your heart, but that person is no longer with you. Bring that person into your mind, and at the same time follow the line all the way from B to E, and you'll hear everything that Chopin had to say. ~ Benjamin Zander

Nobody forced me to look any way. I just exaggerated what was already there. ~ Robin Zander

I think readers nowadays are happy to have genres blurred. We're seeing that on screen too: The Pirates of the Caribbean mashes up history and fantasy, Cowboys and Aliens mixes the Western and the Science Fiction genres. ~ Colette Freedman

I love animals; I've always loved animals. It's how I identified myself for so long, but I didn't know that in so many ways, I was living my life not in alignment with that. And once I learned about those ways I could be loving animals better, I made those changes, which made me happier and had me living a life that had me contributing. ~ Rory Freedman

I always liked that about bands like the Beatles. They could be so touching at one moment and then 'Helter Skelter' the next. ~ Robin Zander

With their survival as an institution and as individual human beings at stake, the Marines have had to ruthlessly and endlessly examine, discard, define, refine, and redefine their approaches to achieve the ultimate in rapid, effective response to dynamic challenges. ~ David A. Freedman