Mark Spitz Quotes

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• I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Human
  • Cry
  • Frustrated

• The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Music
  • Today
  • Walk

• In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.

  

  Edmund White
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• 'Black Messiah' is a hell of a name for an album. It can easily be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.

  

  D'Angelo
  • World
  • Black
  • Myself

• The other day I was thinking - because I get a lot of headaches - I was wondering whether the head should be where it is. Because, at the end of the day, it's probably the heaviest part of your body, right? And yet it's at the top as opposed to, I don't, dangling at the bottom somewhere.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Thinking
  • Day
  • End

• The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Girl
  • Fear
  • Slave

• On a film set, for me, there's so much more time to process what's going on than there is on a television set. There's more wiggle room to try things and fail and try again and get to the heart of what's going on in the scene, which is really fun for me. It's what I like to do.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Fun

• It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Know

• Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • Wisdom

• The newly released movie 'Noah' features a retelling of the creation story that clearly depicts Darwinian evolution transforming a single-cell organism into a monkey. The movie also seems to show magic in scenes more reminiscent of the occult than of the Bible story.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Movie
  • Single
  • Magic

• He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Equality

• 'Well, what do you know,' Pham said. 'Butterflies in jackboots.'

  

  Vernor Vinge

• Christian Apocalyptic offers us no such hope. It does not even foretell, (which would be more tolerable to our habits of thought) a gradual decay. It foretells a sudden, violent end imposed from without; an extinguisher popped onto the candle, a brick flung at the gramophone, a curtain rung down on the play - 'Halt!'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Hope
  • Christian

• I dunno. Perhaps you should be happy that I have a policy of refraining from grumbling about handicapped operating systems.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Happy

• Morality has nothing in common with politics.

  

  Bob Dylan

• When I was young, life seemed long and endless to me.

  

  Marcello Mastroianni
  • Life
  • Long

• I know I've reached the stage where other artists would bleach their hair or buy a fancy costume, but, inexcusably, I can only be me, which is a full-time occupation and causes terrible backaches.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Time
  • Hair

• What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • God
  • Justice

• For all uniting of strength by private men, is, if for evil intent, unjust; if for intent unknown, dangerous to the Publique, and unjustly concealed.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Dangerous
  • Concealed
  • Private Men

• Crime is interesting. It's huge and fascinating, and it's what my business, TV and film, is largely based on. But the realities are tragic, and in crime drama you rarely see the pain of bereavement or any consequences. It's reduced to a chess game.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Business
  • Game
  • Interesting

• Unlike your fish tank, in nature, fish eat each other. When the population of a species gets too low, it will die out.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • Nature
  • Die

• I always wanted to be in a band with a bunch of dudes who loved Green Day and all that.

  

  Ashton Irwin 5 Seconds of Summer
  • Band
  • Green

• If you fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.

  Mark Spitz