Karl Malden Quotes

During that McCarthy period, I was a frightened young man. I was working, but I was frightened.

Karl Malden

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• On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• I'm a warrior for the middle class.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Class
  • Warrior
  • Middle

• I go to the pub, hang out with my family - that's pretty much it. I also do a lot of sports when I get the chance. I'm actually a pretty mellow guy.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Family
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Important
  • Nation
  • Presence

• My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.

  

  Patrick Roy
  • Life
  • City
  • Quality

• My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Home
  • Black
  • Light

• The success of ISIS is largely tied to the safe haven it has in Syria.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Success
  • Safe
  • Haven

• Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Blood

• In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Life
  • Good
  • Thing

• As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Professional
  • Actor
  • Choice

• Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Think
  • Where

• I really hate rubber ducks, actually.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Hate
  • Really
  • Ducks

• I don't want to think that anything is off limits for me to write about, but I also don't want to intrude on anybody's life, which is why there's very little specificity or names in the songs I write.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Life
  • Why
  • Me

• But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • God
  • Children
  • Father

• It was the Cosby issue that made me realize how much I really cared about women's issues and how much I realize it's important for me to be an advocate for issues that aren't necessarily my own, to be an ally for issues.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Important
  • Women
  • Me

• Blaming alleged victims is not okay, no matter whose side starts it.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Matter
  • Side
  • Okay

• I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • End

• In a kidnapping, you leave behind a lot of your baggage, like arrogance and stubbornness.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Leave
  • Behind
  • Arrogance

• When I was very young, it was all, 'Here's little Johnny,' and I got stuck with it, but I prefer John. There comes a time in a man's life when he shouldn't have a name ending in 'y'.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Life
  • Time

• I would say if you have a dream - and whether that is you want to be some sort of artist, or you want to start a start-up or a business, anything that very much feels like it's uniquely yours and you may not be able to get traction going through traditional channels - the way to do it is to build it brick by brick on your own in microsteps.

  

  Mark Duplass
  • Up
  • May
  • Business

• Until the colonial period Korea had one of the world’s longest histories of centralized rule; that the ROK is about a quarter of Germany's size; and that the likelihood of Kim Jong Un devolving any of his power to mayors and governors is zero.

  

  Brian Reynolds Myers
  • World
  • Power
  • Period

• Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous.

  

  Alex Tabarrok
  • People
  • Action
  • Alone

• On my record cover, you can barely see my face. I still think I look really geeky.

  

  Jeff Buckley

• During that McCarthy period, I was a frightened young man. I was working, but I was frightened.

  

  Karl Malden
  • Period
  • Frightened
  • McCarthy