Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

Let dull critics feed upon the carcasses of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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• Every time I could possibly be doing stand up, I am.

  

  T. J. Miller
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  • Stand
  • Possibly

• Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Ideas
  • Enemy
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• The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Great
  • History
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• All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Money
  • Government
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• We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Excellence

• According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Movies

• I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Song
  • Language
  • German

• Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mistake
  • Individual

• It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Career
  • Doing
  • Angels

• Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Up
  • Key

• My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Black
  • Feeling
  • Food

• I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Men
  • Myself
  • Limit

• You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Poor
  • Part

• I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about music? Normally, you can't say too much. There are a few really good ones, but the majorities are boring, I think.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Good
  • Music
  • Think

• Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Day
  • Person
  • Alive

• Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • House
  • Want
  • Man

• If I go to a reunion in east Texas, my mother's side or my father's, one out of ten is a preacher or a teacher. That's just the way it is in my family.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Father

• Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Soul
  • Hand
  • Yourself

• I don't act because I love doing it, I act because it's my job. At the end of the year, I gotta pay my taxes, bills, doctors, insurance, car insurance, the occasional vacation. It's a wonderful job. The upside is that it is exciting and different... the downside is that it is an extremely insecure job.

  

  Clint Howard
  • Different
  • Job
  • Car

• If I really can be said to have a personal style, I think it is reflected in my taste for the exotic and the unexpected. I like to create rooms which are essentially traditional - and then add touches of the bizarre and the delicious.

  

  Lee Radziwill
  • Style

• Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important music. Young people felt like rock music was theirs, from Elvis to the Beatles to the Ramones to Nirvana. This was theirs; it wasn't their parents'. I think hip-hop became the musical style that embraces that mentality.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• Donald Trump has been horrendous, saying things are bad because of Muslims or Mexicans. This is exactly what happened in the 1930s in Germany, and it's gonna get worse.

  

  Butch Trucks
  • Bad
  • Trump

• Let dull critics feed upon the carcasses of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.

  

  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield