David Merrick Quotes

It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

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• A president can't go to every memorial service.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Service
  • President
  • Memorial

• All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

  

  Tacitus
  • Things
  • All Things
  • Rome

• When we shoot 'Scrubs' I spend every waking hour of my life in an abandoned and haunted hospital. All I can date there are ghosts and they tend to be horrible snugglers.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Life
  • My Life
  • I Can

• A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

  

  Man Ray
  • Needs
  • Him
  • Creator

• I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Birthday

• I can be a bit extreme. I'll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Time
  • Running
  • Green

• On Hillary's side, I don't think it gets more establishment than Hillary Clinton. If I had one word to describe Hillary, it would be 'beholden.' Nothing's gonna really change. Government's gonna have the answer to everything, and that's gonna mean taxes are gonna go up.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Up
  • Think
  • Change

• Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • World
  • College
  • Graduation

• People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Job
  • Acting

• As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Want
  • Artist

• I'd seen 'The Sopranos,' but I wasn't a faithful viewer because I can't handle it.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Because
  • Faithful
  • Handle

• Teaching sometimes seems like not one profession, but every profession. We ask them to be doctor and diplomat, calf-herder, map-maker, wizard and watchman, electricians of the mind.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Mind
  • Sometimes
  • Doctor

• Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Write
  • Critics
  • Surgeon

• A lot of artists have a lot of different ventures, I think it's typical for a hip hop artist, at this point, to have a bunch of different ventures.

  

  Kanye West
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Artist

• A misanthrope I can understand - a womanthrope never.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Never
  • Understand
  • Misanthrope

• While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don't bend.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Mind
  • Education
  • Bones Flexible

• It was just a wonderful experience, one for the memory book for sure. The sad thing about it was that the picture came under this absurd cloud of controversy. Here was a movie based on the central theme that racism is something that is taught, and it's illustrated by this story of a dog and the efforts of humans to re-train it after it had been trained to go after black people. And it created this ridiculous controversy and wound up being the last Hollywood movie that Sam [Fuller] made.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • People
  • Up
  • Experience

• I don't want to be Angelina Jolie. Not that Angelina Jolie is not the most talented, beautiful, successful, amazing, admirable person who does good things for the world, but I don't want to be a movie star like that.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • World
  • Good
  • Movie

• I'm not saying that hip-hop needs gay rappers or anything, but they need to stop being so close-minded because that will just cause the genre to fail. Look at pop. Pop doesn't discriminate against people. Look at Lady Gaga, y'know what I mean?

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • People
  • Stop
  • Gay

• There are millions of business ideas out there but only a tiny percentage of businesses succeed.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Ideas
  • Succeed
  • Percentages

• If you listen to the real in you, that part that's pulsing and has questions and is trying to figure something out, it will shape your life in a way where, when you get to be sixty, you'll succeed. You'll be happy about your life.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Succeed

• I didn't really get to Led Zeppelin until I was in my 20s.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Really
  • Led Zeppeline

• If I want to be up for an Academy Award, I'm either going to have to play a tour de force of some kind or have a tracheotomy just before the nominations.

  

  Burt Reynolds
  • Nominations
  • Academy Award
  • Tracheotomy

• It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

  

  David Merrick
  • Succeed
  • Fail