Charles Lederer Quotes

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

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• Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • Plan

• Everyone at Junction Point has been inspired by the creative folks at Pixar and Disney Feature Animation to make 'entertainment for everyone.'

  

  Warren Spector
  • Inspired
  • Creative
  • Disney

• The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Beautiful
  • Unity
  • Essence

• At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Grow
  • Flame

• I think I need security.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Think
  • Need
  • Security

• Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

  

  Harold Washington
  • American
  • History
  • Democracy

• What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Style
  • Rock
  • Guitar

• At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Team
  • Employees
  • Teammates

• To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • War
  • Knowledge
  • Peace

• Don't forget to eat a lot of greens and fish oil pills. Those are two of the best things to keep your skin glowing.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Best
  • Oil
  • Fish

• I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • World
  • Hope

• So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • People
  • Country
  • Black

• A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Nature
  • Plant
  • Flowers

• Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Life
  • Effort
  • Thought

• Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Good
  • Great
  • History

• I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • World
  • Always
  • Her

• The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • People
  • Home
  • Community

• 'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • World
  • Power
  • Morality

• I'm not one of these people who say how much better American drama is than English. I find it mostly too American, except for The Sopranos, which I think is the best thing.

  

  Andrew Davies
  • People
  • American
  • English

• My sister was an actress when I was a kid - she still is a successful stage actress in Sweden.

  

  Joel Kinnaman
  • She
  • Sister

• MacUser: If you could change one thing, what would it be? Jef Raskin: To not have people assume you can rank every-thing one dimensionally. Or have everybody realise that killing people is not a way to solve problems.

  

  Jef Raskin
  • People

• The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

  

  Charles de Gaulle
  • People
  • High
  • Judge

• I'm working in a form of cinema that can be described, and has been described, as a diaristic form of cinema. In other words, with material from my own life. I walk through life with my camera, and occasionally I film. I never think about scripts, never think about films, making films.

  

  Jonas Mekas
  • Life
  • Words

• Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

  

  Charles Lederer
  • Life
  • Important
  • Knowledge