Billy Rose Quotes
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Military brats have this toughness: they're almost like orphans or foster children; they develop little mechanisms. It sets you up to look at things a little differently.
Padgett Powell -
The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.
Larry Kramer -
For the first time, entrepreneurs can monetize their own open-source and peer-to-peer network. They can crowdfund and raise money from people across the world on the Internet in crypto-currency.
Olaf Carlson-Wee -
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Isaac Asimov -
'Game of Thrones' focuses on what's real.
Maisie Williams -
My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.
Karl Lagerfeld
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My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!
Takeshi Kitano -
If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
Veronica Roth -
I like how steady the work in television is. Films, they're hard to come by. They're elusive. I've done a couple, independently financed. You do them, and maybe a few people will see them.
Mamie Gummer -
I want to have a food truck that would just be bathrooms. I would line it up in back of the other food trucks, and I'd charge $1 for use.
Ike Barinholtz -
Actors are actors, and there should be a complete fluidity for anyone to play anything.
Eddie Redmayne -
A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top.
Frances O'Grady
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Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.
Camille Paglia -
Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.
Sam Kinison -
There’s a big difference between keeping the peace, which is something folks do pretty well themselves, and enforcing the law, which is another thing altogether.
L. Neil Smith -
Gertrude Johnson could feel no real respect for, no real interest in, anybody who wasn't a writer. For her there were two species: writers and people; and the writers were really people, and the people weren't.
Randall Jarrell -
The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence; they only keep men from complaining about it.
Warren Farrell -
The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.
Alan Watts
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If you are describing any occurrence... make two or more distinct reports at different times... We discriminate at first only a few features, and we need to reconsider our experience from many points of view and in various moods in order to perceive the whole.
Henry David Thoreau -
When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.
Peter Mullan -
At the beginning of this year also, I called upon the North Korean side to open dialog between the responsible authorities of the South and the North at any place, at any time, and at any level, in order to prevent a recurrence of war and to cooperate to speed up the peaceful unification of our fatherland. However, no sincere response has yet been made by North Korea.
Jimmy Carter -
I loved languages, and loved learning languages. It was fantastic. But I was alone there. I remember that time as a real Virginia Woolf time. More than any language it was her language that influenced me.
Lily King -
It's hard for a fellow to keep a chip on his shoulder if you allow him to take a bow.
Billy Rose