Blake Edwards Quotes

Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.

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• Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Knowledge
  • Notes
  • Concert

• It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.

  

  Pat Morita
  • High
  • Career
  • Very

• Celine Dion is my major inspiration.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Inspiration
  • Major
  • Celine Dion

• Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Men
  • Politics
  • Married

• I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Culture
  • Religion
  • Unique

• A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Book
  • Me
  • Childhood

• The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • You
  • Comedy
  • Own

• A fascinating reaction of the human brain when we fail to meet a goal is that it tells us to throw caution to the wind and make things even worse, which ultimately leads to us giving up.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Brain

• I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Family
  • Lovely
  • Bahamas

• My main concern is getting out an album that I feel really proud of.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Proud
  • Feel
  • Really

• There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Believe
  • May
  • History

• It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Music
  • Joy

• I think a lot of what I was taught, gathered, and learned is worth keeping. Heritage and 'wisdom' and simply personal family and local history enrich the one able to tap such information. As it is I wish I had garnered more from my grandparents and parents.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Family
  • History
  • Parents

• Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Power
  • Nature

• In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • War
  • Action

• There shall be no love lost.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Lost

• The master enjoined not austerity, but moderation. If we truly enjoyed things, he claimed, we would be spontaneously moderate. Asked why he was so opposed to ascetical practices, he replied, 'Because they produce pleasure-haters who always become people-haters - rigid and cruel.'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • People
  • Why
  • Haters

• Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Painting

• I think my style is a mix of quirky, eclectic, bright, and fun, with a really sophisticated feminine silhouette.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Fun
  • Style

• There was some conflict there over Saturday nights because we were all really broke in those days- all the money you had in the world was in your pockets. Nowadays when you're say you're broke, it's not the same thing.

  

  Arto Lindsay
  • World
  • Money
  • Saturday

• 'Giving 2.0' is about making your giving matter more to the people we all hope to help, and it's about making your giving matter more to you.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • People
  • Help
  • Hope

• Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards! This is your life and mine! I've spent a whole lifetime building this and as long as I'm in charge, nobody is going to knock it down.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• War and famine would not do. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if the population crisis is to be solved. AIDS is not an efficient killer because it is too slow. My favorite candidate for eliminating 90 percent of the world's population is airborne Ebola (Ebola Reston), because it is both highly lethal and it kills in days, instead of years. "We've got airborne diseases with 90 percent mortality in humans. Killing humans. Think about that. "You know, the bird flu's good, too. For everyone who survives, he will have to bury nine.

  

  Eric Pianka
  • War
  • Humans
  • Disease

• Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.

  

  Blake Edwards