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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Max Minghella is a very close friend of mine, and I talk to him regularly.
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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 have Bob Dylan lyrics on my ribs. I'm a diehard Dylan fan, and my dad and I joke that if I ever met him, I'd have him sign his name right under my tattoo and then I'd run to the parlor to get his signature tattooed.
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I could think of nothing more insufferable than members of one’s own gang dropping in full of sympathy and their own affairs.
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Like all the new technologies that have arisen from scientific knowledge, biotechnology is a tool that can be used either for good or for evil purposes. The role of ethics is to strengthen the good and avoid the evil.
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The key to finding protein for your snacks when you're on the go is making sure said snacks don't need to be refrigerated, don't need to be cooked, and are in convenient packaging.
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The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.
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He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
