Peter Bart Quotes

It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.

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• There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • World
  • Live
  • Fools

• There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • People
  • Men
  • History

• When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Real
  • Know
  • Talk

• Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Cool
  • Conversation
  • Walk

• Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • People
  • Think
  • House

• Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Live
  • Job

• I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Said
  • Genius
  • Hollywood

• I've always felt that the truth is in the silence.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Truth
  • Silence
  • Truth Is

• The white man, in his press, is going to identify me with 'hate.'

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Hate
  • Me

• I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Why
  • Yoga
  • Perfectionist

• I just worked my own personal thoughts into my music, and just kept at it until I found a way in.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Thoughts
  • Own

• I'm proud of Larry Sanders and proud of every single person who went on that journey. It's a very special show to me, and I've learned a lot of lessons from it. I need to find something where I can learn some more lessons, and then I'll do that project.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Single
  • Proud
  • Learn

• You need to look at Congress as having a certain capacity. Now, the capacity varies from year to year and from body to body, but there is a finite amount of things that Congress can attentively do.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Body
  • Look
  • Year

• I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Life
  • Up
  • Fun

• It's pretty easy to tell who's garbage and who's not right away, and most people suck, to be honest, or they're just really wrapped up in what's going on with themselves.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Up
  • Pretty

• If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Law
  • Chaos

• 'What, now?' 'Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.'

  

  Iain Banks
  • Good

• You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.

  

  David Garrick
  • Imagination

• I relate to Michael Keaton's character in 'Birdman' so much, how he has that voice being so mean and then another boosting his confidence.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • Character
  • Confidence

• I love being outdoors, water sports, hiking - really, anything that keeps me moving!

  

  Witney Carson
  • Water
  • Moving
  • Sports

• In golf your strengths and weaknesses will always be there. If you could improve your weaknesses, you would improve your game. The irony is that people prefer to practice their strengths.

  

  Harvey Penick
  • Golf
  • Weaknesses
  • Strengths

• Schon ist mein Blick am Hügel, dem besonnten, dem Wege, den ich kaum begann, voran. So fasst uns das, was wir nicht fassen konnten, voller Erscheinung, aus der Ferne an-und wandelt uns, auch wenn wirs nicht erreichen, in jenes, das wir, kaum es ahnend, sind; ein Zeichen weht, erwidernd unserm Zeichen... Wir aber spüren nur den Gegenwind.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke

• I knew my priority was acting, and school came second. If I had an audition and meetings, I did the school work later.

  

  Freya Tingley
  • Work
  • School
  • Priority

• It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.

  

  Peter Bart