Keith Olbermann Quotes

I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room.

Keith Olbermann

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• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Times
  • Many
  • Performed

• But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Strong

• India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Time
  • Country
  • Bird

• I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.

  

  Randy Newman
  • True
  • Earth
  • Genius

• I would tell the young Francesco Totti to repeat everything that the older Totti did - if he's able to!

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Young
  • Everything
  • Repeat

• I want to be remembered as the football player I was. The private person is nobody's business.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Business
  • Want
  • Football

• I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American values.' Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that's American.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • American
  • You

• If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Country
  • Future
  • Decision

• I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Wife

• In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Life
  • Business
  • Follow

• People think it's suspect and self-indulgent to make art, and I don't think that's true. Some people think you should be busy making something that you can sell in the marketplace, and if nobody wants to buy it, it must be crap. And that's not true.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • People
  • Art
  • True

• I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Hope
  • Education

• The role of president, as George W. Bush commented in 2000, requires vision, management, and an eye for talent - not so different from that of CEO. But during the first years of Carter's presidency, his Cabinet was anything but businesslike, beset by infighting and meetings that ambled.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Different
  • Vision
  • Eye

• Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Men
  • Women
  • Movie

• I think that for some people faith is good - they have something to draw to.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Good
  • Faith

• A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • True
  • Single

• Could they be perpetrated without being known, in a country like this, where social and literary intercourse is on such a footing, where every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies, and where roads and newspapers lay everything open?

  

  Jane Austen
  • Country

• Man's inhumanity to man is as old as humanity itself. Some people just do evil things. Most do not. A billion people have seen 'Batman' movies over the past 20 years, and they have been entertained and inspired. One man saw it as a sick entry point for mass murder. The one is tragic. The billion are not. I choose to write for the billion.

  

  Kurt Sutter
  • People
  • Past
  • Evil

• We are in a technological age, and 'Social Music' aims to reflect that spirit of advancement, collaboration and connectivity while still remaining 'human.' And Stay Human, then, is a reminder of what connects us all. It's our mantra.

  

  Jon Batiste
  • Music
  • Age
  • Collaboration

• I had a very comfortable life, but there were people who spent their life in prison, whose families were destroyed.

  

  Peter Sis
  • People
  • Life

• For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about artists beyond their immediate utility. Good movements will use a writer just as ruthlessly as bad ones; since they all fancy they have better things to do than worry about one man's artistic survival.

  

  Wilfrid Sheed
  • Worry
  • Survival
  • Artistic

• For the most part our grassroots members are serious, nice, tolerant people.

  

  Francis Maude
  • People
  • Nice
  • Serious

• I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room.

  

  Keith Olbermann