Marlene Dietrich Quotes

I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now.

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• I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Want
  • See
  • News

• With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Done
  • Single
  • Artist

• Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Bad
  • Courage
  • Chance

• If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writer
  • Dead
  • Hostility

• We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Night

• Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Great
  • Different

• Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Different
  • Hand
  • Brain

• I made a point when I made the Ugly Casanova record to not write a song and then say, 'This is a Modest Mouse song' or 'This is an Ugly Casanova song.' The people who were open to it not being a Modest Mouse record liked it.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • People
  • Song
  • Ugly

• I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one – only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs.

  

  Karel Capek
  • People
  • Live
  • House

• I'm not a pundit. I don't want to be a pundit.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Want

• You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Know

• The study of nature is of no significance, for painting is a conventional art, and it is infinitely more worthwhile to learn to draw after w:Holbein.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Study

• You know why I'm pulling your leg? Because I can't touch it from where I am.

  

  Gene Klein Kiss
  • Why

• The best comedy I ever did was when people didn't know who I was.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • People
  • Comedy

• Senator Schumer is a partisan.

  

  James Comey

• We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.

  

  Donald Norman
  • Emotional
  • motivation

• I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything.

  

  Dick York
  • Up
  • Time
  • Pretty

• So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you'll have another 40 years to go. Four decades in which to live long and prosper.Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they're 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation. They would be very disappointed that they didn't meet their life expectancy.I'm here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.

  

  Adrian Tan
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Long

• The Gandhi family has a tradition of being good hosts. When you call upon them, they treat you with a lot of respect.

  

  Sharad Pawar
  • Tradition
  • Treats
  • Host

• A possibility is that we see more and more leverage, and credit-to-GDP ratios rise once more to even higher levels; eventually the banking systems of all advanced economies reach magnitudes of 500 percent, 1000 percent or more of GDP, so that every economy starts to have financial systems that resemble recent cases like Switzerland, Ireland, Iceland, or Cyprus. That might be a very fragile world to live in.

  

  Alan M. Taylor
  • Credit
  • Banking
  • Economies

• Leadership is not about being nice. it's about being right and being strong

  

  Paul Keating
  • Strong
  • Nice

• I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now.

  

  Marlene Dietrich