Ivan Albright quotes

Ivan Albright quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything; but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving is necessary to the healthy character.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
“If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when they went round crying for a hero.”
“Love overcomes hate. Love has no color. Love has no orientation. All is love.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm so bad at spontaneous impressions.”
“With me it's always about first impressions.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I'm very wary with impressions - I don't think I'm very good at impressions, I hate doing them.”
“I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.”
“I insist upon 'doing it alone'... I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.”
“I can't do impressions.”
“Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition.”

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