Daniel Schorr Quotes

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

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• I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • People
  • Think
  • Ancestors

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

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Times
  • Many
  • Performed

• I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.

  

  B. B. King
  • Mind
  • Song
  • Night

• The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Success
  • Always
  • Policy

• I like a set to be a happy place, where people can feel free to experiment.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Happy
  • Free

• Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Evil

• If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Stupidity
  • Optimism

• The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Good
  • Reason
  • Back

• I want to be the best daughter, sister, friend and wife I can possibly be - because when I die, I am not going to be buried with my Oscar.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Die
  • Friend
  • Wife

• To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.

  

  Maimonides
  • Law
  • Perfect
  • Possible

• My sister would say I'm a feeder because I like cooking for people.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • People
  • Sister
  • Cooking

• The tricky thing about songwriting is that, more often than not, what you consider to be your best work generates a collective shrug, and something you've simply tossed off bowls people over.

  

  Dan Hill
  • People
  • Work
  • Best

• I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Think
  • Day
  • December

• All beginnings are involuntary.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• 'A man like that thinks that fear can win loyalty.''Plenty of masters with a lash who can testify it works.''Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Fear
  • Loyalty

• Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

  

  E. M. Forster

• The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lost

• I've done tons of guest spots and in parts where the character invariably dies or is dead.

  

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan
  • Done
  • Character

• People talk as if grief were just a feeling -- as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again and again on familiar roads and being brought up short by the grim frontier post that now blocks them.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Up
  • Feeling

• I'm not fake, and I don't want to mislead people about who I am. I can be serious, too, and I cry a lot. It's just who I am.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • People
  • Serious
  • Fake

• I feel like... I don't have a wife, I don't have a kids, but... I see rappers and I'm like, I know that's fake. I know how much you make, this is all bullshit. But people are buying into it, and you shouldn't have that power. I'm legit trying to make honest moves so that all of us can grow. I want to make a show where my sister can work on and become a producer because she can't get in, no one's leting her. I want to make things where people can actually grow. A place where people can actually be honest.

  

  Donald Glover
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Life

• Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

  

  Daniel Schorr
  • Fake