Max Eastman Quotes

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

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• On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.

  

  Flume
  • Up
  • Character
  • Stage

• I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Me
  • Hurt
  • Feel

• Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Winter
  • Focused
  • Classic

• A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Money
  • Love

• Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Up
  • She
  • Age

• To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Live
  • Success
  • Win

• Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Time
  • Civilization
  • Taste

• To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Trust
  • Positive
  • Perspective

• I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Hair
  • Struggle
  • Constant

• Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • Live
  • Love
  • Home

• I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Business
  • Success

• Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Passion
  • Always
  • Dance

• Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Community
  • Value
  • Moment

• A bad system will beat a good person every time.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• I'm fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Sports
  • Winning
  • Losing

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

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Said
  • Genius
  • Hollywood

• The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.

  

  Calvin Peete
  • Money
  • Wife
  • Best

• Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I'd rather just not be involved. I'm not a big high-fiver. That really gets to people around me when we have a No. 1 or something big happen. I'm not a big, 'Let's go have a party about it!'

  

  Gary Allan
  • People
  • Music
  • High

• Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something.

  

  Chris Hayes
  • Time
  • Different
  • Feeling

• I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Friends
  • Possible

• Half the time, people will be abusing me on Twitter, and half the time, somebody will be praising me. So either it will go to my head, or I will take it to my heart. So better I stay away from it.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • Time
  • Heart

• Preemptive boringness. Being one-dimensional is the most satisfying method of coping with out-of-control people - with any situation that's out of control … Don't let people know the ideas you love, the games you've played, the places you've visited in your mind. Keep your treasure to yourself.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • People
  • Mind
  • Control

• Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago.

  

  Jay Alan Sekulow
  • Up
  • Alien

• People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

  

  Max Eastman
  • People