Charles Lederer Quotes

Flattery'll get you anywhere.

Charles Lederer

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• If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.

  

  Earl King
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Serious

• Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

  

  Hank Ketcham
  • Enjoy
  • Flattery
  • Gum

• It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Education
  • Community
  • Needs

• I don't belong much anywhere.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Much
  • Belong
  • Anywhere

• I've never really fit in anywhere.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Never
  • Fit
  • Anywhere

• I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know thenI wish I could start this whole thing over againI'm not sayin' it's you could never be trueI just don't wanna know how it endsYou'd still have my heart in the palm of your handsI'd still look like a fool in front of your friendsYeah I wish somehow I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

  

  Toby Keith
  • Heart
  • Wish
  • Fool

• If you give children the freedom to do very little, quite a lot will do very little.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Children
  • Freedom

• I realized probably when I was, like, 20 years old that the hardest thing to do is to write a pop song - not, like, a candy-pop, throwaway pop song.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Song
  • Candy

• It turns out our brain is sensitive, maybe too sensitive, to motion. It's a survival mechanism.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Brain
  • Survival

• I've been singing since I was 16 because I love it - I wanted to be a singer, not a star. There's a difference between wanting to be famous and wanting to sing well.

  

  Bonnie Tyler
  • Star
  • Singing
  • Famous

• Obedience brings peace in decision making. If we have firmly made up our minds to follow the commandments, we will not have to redecide which path to take when temptation comes our way.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Up
  • Peace
  • Decision

• The measure of a man is what he does with power.

  

  Plato
  • Power

• I associate creativity with independent music.

  

  Miguel
  • Music
  • Independent
  • Creativity

• Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

  

  Doris Lessing
  • Opportunity

• Every time your picture is taken, you lose a part of your soul.

  

  Anna May Wong
  • Time
  • Soul
  • Taken

• History proves nothing because it contains everything.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • History

• If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!

  

  Idries Shah
  • Money
  • Power
  • Happy

• Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.

  

  Sara Willis
  • Women
  • Giving
  • Justice

• Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • She
  • Nature
  • Air

• There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • True
  • Seen
  • Anywhere

• I have had to fight every single style coming up on my way to get here I wasn't fed anyone in any point of my career. I fought every style you could think of - righty, lefty, tall, short, power-puncher, fast guys, counter guys, so for me it is the norm - training for guys with different styles.

  

  Chris Algieri
  • Different
  • Guy
  • Style

• Flattery'll get you anywhere.

  

  Charles Lederer
  • Flattery
  • Anywhere