Elmer Bernstein Quotes
One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it.Elmer Bernstein
Quotes to Explore
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If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
Vikram Seth -
The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
Fabiola Gianotti -
I love recording music.
J. J. Abrams -
I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
Gary Numan -
I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
Kara Walker
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I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.
Kaley Cuoco -
While Muslim men describe themselves as insecure in their harems, real or imagined, Westerners describe themselves as self-assured heroes with no fears of women. The tragic dimension so present in Muslim harems - fear of women and male self-doubt - is missing in the Western harem.
Fatema Mernissi -
I don't think Christ becomes real to us until we hit a low point in our lives and realize just how much we need Him. That's why faith affects every area of your life.
LaDainian Tomlinson -
A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
Adam Clayton U2 -
Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
Abu Bakar Bashir -
I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
R. Kelly
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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
Barbra Streisand -
The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
Dale Murphy -
I am an honest, straight guy.
Vijay Mallya -
The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
Jack White The White Stripes -
I'm a pro-horserace guy.
Nate Silver
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There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.
Fiona Apple -
The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.
Albert Camus -
I was really surprised at the success of 'House of Sand and Fog,' because it is so awfully dark. Believe it or not, when writing it, I never had the word 'tragedy' in my head - I wasn't trying to write a dark book at all.
Andre Dubus III -
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger from feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented in books. There simmered all the feelings no one ever admits to.
Betsy Lerner -
Scutum reliquisse praecipuum flagitium, nec aut sacris adesse aut concilium inire ignominioso fas; multique superstites bellorum infamiam laqueo finierunt.
Tacitus -
One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it.
Elmer Bernstein