Budd Schulberg Quotes

Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.

Budd Schulberg

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• Sadly, half of marriages end in divorce. Half of my girl friends and male friends have been through one, and their kids are doing great. There's no shame around it - unless you want to project that on to yourself - but certainly there's no longer cultural shame. Everyone is walking through it.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Friends

• During my first round of law school applications, I didn't even apply to Yale, Harvard, or Stanford - the mystical 'top three' schools. I didn't think I had a chance at those places. More important, I didn't think it mattered; all lawyers get good jobs, I assumed.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Good
  • Important
  • School

• If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.

  

  Randy West
  • Real
  • Game
  • Career

• I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Work
  • Job
  • Enough

• No, I am a crier and if people ever saw me privately they would be shocked at what a bowl of mush I am underneath it all.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Shocked
  • Crier

• You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • Family
  • Parent

• I actually always had short hair as a kid, and it's really liberating. I recommend it. It's just very easy. I don't have to brush it.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Hair
  • Easy
  • Short

• While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it equally well. This is one of the many delusions borne of political correctness.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Same

• My mother used to push 'Wuthering Heights' on me as a boy, and I sensed from her breathy description of the story that it would make me laugh. I have no plans to find out if this is true.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • True
  • Mother
  • Me

• I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Couple
  • Successful
  • First

• Nobody cares what any politician in Washington says.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Nobody
  • Washington

• As a first movie, 'The Hobbit' is not a bad place to start.

  

  Adam Brown
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Place

• I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Important
  • Forgiveness

• The spirit of Dunkirk is something everyone grew up learning about. After Dunkirk, everyone came together and it set the tone in the U.K.

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • Up
  • Together
  • Learning

• I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Think
  • Generation
  • Possible

• Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government.

  

  Sam Farr
  • People
  • Peace
  • Government

• There were no wrestling schools in Ireland. It was completely unheard of.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Wrestling
  • Schools
  • Ireland

• Sure, I got lost, which is an actor's worst nightmare. But it is a gift as well, because great things come out of being lost and unsure, especially if you have a controlling side or a perfectionist side, which plenty of us do.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Great
  • Lost
  • Gift

• Don't live vicariously through your kids or try to shape them into who you wanted to be, like the popular kid or an athlete. Children should be given the opportunity to be themselves.

  

  Joan Cusack
  • Live
  • Children
  • Kids

• Restore, without delay, the equilibrium between revenue and expenditures, which has done so much to destroy our credit and derange the whole fabric of government. If that should not be done, the government and country will be involved, ere long, in overwhelming difficulties.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • Long
  • Country
  • Done

• Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Most
  • Occasions
  • Kinds

• Play isn't you being clever, or finding a trick, or finding a way of covering over your own misery, or persuading someone to do what you want. It's the process of working with the materials that you find and discovering what's possible with them.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • Play
  • Clever
  • Over You

• Overall, the work of rebuilding and transforming government for the digital age is only just beginning. Governments remain organized according to political and bureaucratic imperatives, not according to what makes the most sense to citizens.

  

  Andrew Leigh
  • Sense
  • Citizens
  • Governments

• Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.

  

  Budd Schulberg