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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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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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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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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He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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When no one knew who Dana White was... Dana White used to run around with me, hang out with me, and I treated him just like anyone else in my camp.
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Distinction is purchased at the expense of sympathy
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People tend to think they know you when you come into their televisions every week. They think you are different than who you are. Don't believe everything you hear.
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Technologies will come and go, so you need to be able to both ask and answer the question: What do you do as a company, why do you exist?
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My father taught me about having principles and how to treat people with respect. My aunt also taught me how to keep a perspective on everything that happens to you. So you learn to be humble and not take your success for granted.
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He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
