S. J. Perelman Quotes
He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
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Whether I do an original film, a dance, or a remake of my dad's hit songs, I have always been compared to him.
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Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult.
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Somebody like Bowie was so interesting because when you got him off stage, he was like a businessman. But on stage, he was just dazzling. It was like watching butterflies grow.
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.
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Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
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It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.
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When you have somebody like a Donald Trump - he made no bones about trying to disprove Barack Obama's Americanism in trying to make him out to be some foreigner that was born in Kenya. I thought that to be very racist.
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You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
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He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
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Before 'The Vampire Diaries,' I was making beats, which is how I got will.i.am's attention, and I went on tour with him.
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He's so sophisticated... Kanye is like 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' he's interesting, so you want to be around him.
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The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.
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I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see if we're going to buy him.
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If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not "a little bit of love," but major surgery. If you think you are helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You must have a right-standing relationship with Him yourself, and pour your life out in helping others in His way— not in a human way that ignores God.
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At the end of the day, I'm not some evil guy.
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I call myself a chameleon.
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We should never forget that in the smartphone, the smart part is us creators.
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Knowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn.
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He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
