Randy Newman Quotes

It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.

Randy Newman

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• I eat healthy and don't go by a diet chart. The breakfast is usually heavy, complemented with short frequent meals. My dinner is high on proteins and low on carbohydrates.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • High
  • Breakfast
  • Short

• My mother, R. Rajalakshmi, taught at Annamalai University in Chidambaram, and during the day, I was well cared for by aunts and grandparents in the usual way of an extended Indian family.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Day

• The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Thought
  • Criticism
  • Romantics

• You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • You
  • Never
  • Desperate

• The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • May
  • Power
  • Society

• The crew loves working on the show, even though we have to work really hard. There's nobody in the show that's difficult. We really have a great group.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Work
  • Great
  • Group

• I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!

  

  W. Mark Felt
  • Wrong
  • Anything
  • Anybody

• The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Remember
  • Pretty
  • Small

• All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Done
  • Thought
  • Admire

• Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Change

• But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Job
  • Career
  • Feeling

• It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • People
  • Why
  • Hurt

• I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Work
  • Progress
  • Acting

• Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Life
  • You
  • Walking

• You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Place
  • Conservative

• My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Alaska; the company does amazing work, and I am thrilled at the prospect of working together.

  

  Dana Stabenow
  • Work
  • Together
  • Amazing

• As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • Man
  • Control

• One thing I admire about the Eagles is they always seem to know what they want. They always seem to know why they want it. They always seem to want it at the same time.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Time
  • Why

• 'Mean Girls' is literally one of my favorite movies. It's just such a classic. Everybody has seen it, and me and my friends quote it all the time.

  

  Carly Chaikin
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Movies

• To have transactions made on your web site via credit card, you must be PCI compliant. Businesses make the mistake of thinking that because you passed the requirements and are PCI certified, you are immune to attacks.

  

  Kevin Mitnick
  • Thinking
  • Mistake

• To be in a position, at my age, where I am financially independent, I can help develop things, I can promote stuff that I believe in, I can say no a lot and spend time writing - that is a gift.

  

  Elliot Page
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Writing

• O yonge fresshe folkes, he or she, In which that love up-groweth with your age, Repeyreth hoom fro worldly vanitee, And of your herte up-casteth the visage To thilke God that after his image Yow made, and thynketh al nis but a faire This world, that passeth sone as floures faire.

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Up
  • World
  • God

• It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Age
  • Famous
  • Rich