Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Quotes
To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning.
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With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.
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For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn't make any difference.
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Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.
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I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.
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I think there are plenty of Libertarians that are socially conservative.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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To be with old friends is very warming and comforting.
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There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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When I was a young boy, I preferred cats to dogs. From the age of seven or eight onwards I just felt more comfortable with cats. And I felt more comfortable with girls, I didn't really like hanging out with guys. When I was about ten or eleven, I was friendlier with the girls in my school than with the guys.
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The first person who showed me that I could be a maker of music was one of my best friends. It's like, you can't see yourself doing something until you see somebody else doing it. Other people were encouraging me singing, but this was the first time that I could see myself writing songs and playing guitar.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.
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I would tell people my dad was all the characters he's played in movies, because once you say he's a lawyer or something, they move on.
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I have an odd theory on happiness, and it bothers people. My general theory is that happiness is a reward for an animal doing what it should be doing. So if a horse runs, it feels happy. Or if you are too thin, you can't be happy, because evolution wants you to be tense and anxious, trying to wake up in the morning looking for food.
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One of the things I love about 'Idol' besides the drama, the backstories, and the crazy arrangements on popular songs is the auditions, when everyone is full of hope and nerves.
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To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning.
