Top 35 Vartan Quotes
#1. Never trust a survivor," my father used to warn me, with Vartan Mamigonian in mind, "until you find out what he did to stay alive.
Kurt Vonnegut
#2. I never wanted to work in fashion. At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater! And I was crazy for the Hollywood of the 1950s: Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones. They were my idea of glamour - and Sylvie Vartan, the French singer.
Christian Louboutin
#3. Every actor will tell you it's so much more fun to play the bad guy because usually those characters are more complex and more broad and more interesting, and have more sides to them.
Michael Vartan
#4. Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.
Vartan Gregorian
#6. Money doesn't make you happy... but it sure doesn't make you said either!" - Nate Temple
Shayne Silvers
#7. My only job is to be happy. So for everybody that cares about me and is not trying to be all up in a celebrity's business, just know that I'm happy. My son is happy. We enjoy our lives,
Jill Scott
#8. There are people that entertainment is something they do at the end of a long hard day at work, and they want to be entertained and have it over quickly. They're like, "Entertain me fast!"
Judd Apatow
#9. I shall tell you where we are. We're in the most extreme and utter region of the human mind. A dim, subconscious underworld. A radiant abyss where men meet themselves. Hell, Netley. We're in Hell.
Alan Moore
#10. I would rather do movies because I'm very lazy and the hours are much easier.
Michael Vartan
#11. The universe is not going to see someone like you again in the entire history of creation.
Vartan Gregorian
#12. In Ethiopia, food is often looked at through a strong spiritual lens, stronger than anywhere else I know. It's the focal point of weddings, births and funerals and is a daily ceremony from the preparation of the meal and the washing of hands to the sharing of meals.
Marcus Samuelsson
#13. In a weird way, [hockey] is like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one.
Michael Vartan
#14. The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.
Vartan Gregorian
#15. I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one.
Michael Vartan
#16. It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.
Vartan Gregorian
#17. In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The library is a symbol of opportunity, citizenship, equality, freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and hence, is a symbol for democracy itself.
Vartan Gregorian
#18. The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.
Vartan Gregorian
#19. I like to be a bowler because I can't bat properly. After 17 years of cricket I have got the opportunities and made the wickets fall.
Muttiah Muralitharan
#20. I'm not a bling-bling guy; I can't pull it off. I just look like an idiot.
Michael Vartan
#21. It is very important that, no matter what happens, you keep your feeling of self worth and value.
Vartan Gregorian
#23. I think the hardest thing about being an actor is between jobs when you don't know and wondering if you'll ever work again. It's kind of a crazy business.
Michael Vartan
#24. You never know why or when the next job is coming. I actually like that. It's kind of exciting. I don't punch in. I don't have a 9 to 5 job. When you do work you're lucky enough to go to interesting places and meet mostly interesting and talented people, so it's really a great job if you can work.
Michael Vartan
#25. Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
Vartan Gregorian
#26. The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.
Vartan Gregorian
#27. So are you here alone or is there someone looking daggers at my back right now, ready to challenge me to a duel?
Somi Ekhasomhi
#28. The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.
Vartan Gregorian
#29. You try and live your life as normally as possible and if someone invents a rumor that I have two vaginas, so be it. There's nothing I can do about it.
Michael Vartan
#30. I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations.
Saul Williams
#31. I've always loved sports and hockey is a sport I play as much as I can. I love it. In a weird way it's like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one. I mean when I play hockey I don't think about anything.
Michael Vartan
#32. Everybody is somebody, so you don't have to introduce anybody.
Vartan Gregorian
#33. You just have to keep plugging away and if you get lucky enough to get a job, you get one.
Michael Vartan
#35. The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and their own thirst for knowledge, and in the process, to achieve their own independence of mind and spirit.
Vartan Gregorian
