Jim Lehrer Quotes
My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.Jim Lehrer
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the art of the next best.
Otto von Bismarck -
It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a scene and think to yourself, 'Oh, God. I was so deep in that moment,' and find it just didn't play. I don't know if I have very good radar about that or not.
Carey Mulligan -
Movies are too literal.
E. L. Doctorow -
Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
Camille Paglia -
We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.
Irving Stone -
I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.
Gary Oldman -
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
Gaston Bachelard -
I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that I kept handing in, but she finally asked in exasperation, 'Can't you write anything normal?'
Octavia E. Butler -
I would welcome satirical references to political leaders as part of freedom of expression.
Kapil Sibal -
On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.
Sam Harris
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
E. O. Wilson -
I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don't celebrate birthdays, you get no Christmas, so it's a very difficult religion for children to get into. And they do a lot of finger-pointing among the Jehovah's Witnesses.
Ja Rule -
I know who the great poets are.
Jack Kerouac -
Having to respond to things that are made up or untrue tends to be a waste of time.
Gary Bettman -
My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.
Olivia Williams -
I believe we create a lot of problems in our relationships if we don't feel safe to talk about our feelings at the speed of life.
Karen Salmansohn
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Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.
Michelle Rodriguez -
I worked with a couple of chocolate Labradors, which were a lot of fun. Very excitable. They're cute.
Sam Heughan -
To the gardener who goes about his task with the right spirit must every plant appear as the most wonderful of laboratories in which miracles of transformation, outmatching the utmost feats of the most skillful conjurer, are being performed every hour.
Luther Burbank -
To all my fans who planned to come to the Future History World tour, the pain of letting you down cuts me way deeper than this injury I've sustained.
Jason Derulo -
My wifes cooking is so bad the flys fix our screens.
Jack Roy -
My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.
Jim Lehrer