Oscar Levant Quotes
John O'Hara was a terrible bore as a young man-always looking for a fight, and making sure he never found one.Oscar Levant
Quotes to Explore
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The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.
Walter Gropius -
It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
Samuel Johnson -
I'm not out there to be blocking shots or fighting guys. I'm out there to produce offensively.
Patrick Kane -
These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.
Vincent Bugliosi -
As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist - Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you know the value of a good joke.
Karen DeCrow -
When you have girl children they torture you!
Pat Benatar
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I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.
Forest Whitaker -
Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.
C. L. R. James -
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
Carl Sandburg -
Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
P. J. O'Rourke -
People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them.
Daley Thompson -
The thing about this business is that you always end up finding these amazing stories and these amazing people who make amazing films. I just want to work with good people and keep challenging myself with different kinds of characters.
Madhur Mittal
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When you have a little one, you realize that your only mission in life is to protect this helpless, very sensitive creature. That is your charge. That's primal. I relate to that deeply.
Lake Bell -
Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us.
Zack Wamp -
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
Walt Disney -
In my first publishable research, I obtained evidence that the replication of polio viral RNA engendered a multi-stranded intermediate, although my description of that intermediate proved flawed in its details.
J. Michael Bishop -
British passion for Chinese tea was unstoppable, but the Chinese had no desire for our offerings, however much we tried to sell them woolen clothes or cutlery.
Kate Williams -
Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I can't count the number of times I've been sound asleep, woke up, and I was doing my hair.
Bill Engvall -
When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.
Emmylou Harris -
Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him.
P. G. Wodehouse -
The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
Nadine Gordimer -
I believe there's something in the Bible about 'Thou shalt not call anyone insane who owns and is competent with more firearms than you own sharp sticks.'
Andrew Plotkin -
John O'Hara was a terrible bore as a young man-always looking for a fight, and making sure he never found one.
Oscar Levant