Alexandra Wentworth quotes

“I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.”
-- Alexandra Wentworth

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“I grew up in that world of power and politics in Washington, but when you grow up around it, you are completely unfazed by it.”
-- Alexandra Wentworth

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“I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anemic and sickly. Now theyve got some good Mediterranean blood in them.”
-- Alexandra Wentworth

Source : "Ali Wentworth Talks ‘Ali In Wonderland,’ Life With George Stephanopoulos" by Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 07, 2012.

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“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.”

“My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.”

“Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...”

Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

“Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.”

“My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.”

“I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.”

“The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.”

Source : Abdus Salam, H. R. Dalafi (1994). “Renaissance of Sciences in Islamic Countries”, p.16, World Scientific

“Being from the Midwest, I would say that I like that East Coast mentality, it's more direct. What you see is what you get.”

Source : "Character: Geraldine". "Flip", TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1970-1974.

“We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it. The East Coast knows it. The West Coast knows it. North, South, old, young, everyone knows it's the worst recovery since the Great Depression.”