Harpo Marx Quotes

I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived.

Harpo Marx

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• I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • True
  • Want
  • Potential

• I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • Training
  • Research
  • Self-Taught

• I feel I am very fortunate to have a job that I really like.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Job
  • Like
  • Fortunate

• I've been very fortunate.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Very
  • Been
  • Fortunate

• I am a self-taught water skier and wind surfer.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Water
  • Wind
  • Self-Taught

• Presenting football is something that I love to do. I'm very fortunate being able to do one of the BBC's flagship shows.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Football
  • Shows
  • Fortunate

• Im Reiche der Zwecke hat alles entweder einen Preis oder eine Würde. Was einen Preis hat, an dessen Stelle kann auch etwas anderes als Äquivalent gesetzt werden; was dagegen über allen Preis erhaben ist, mithin kein Äquivalent verstattet, das hat eine Würde.

  

  Immanuel Kant

• Facebook is uniquely positioned to answer questions that people have, like, what sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York lately and liked? These are queries you could potentially do with Facebook that you couldn't do with anything else, we just have to do it.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • Friends

• I like when my face tingles, when the hair on the back of my neck stands up.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Up
  • Hair

• I'm the worst person to tell anybody how to date.

  

  Jenny McCarthy

• My priorities are: I need to be good; I need to be well within for my children to be well within; and then the creative process flows, organically and smoothly. I'm not looking to experience what I went through in the 'Livin' La Vida Loca' days again.

  

  Ricky Martin
  • Good
  • Children
  • Experience

• As a Middle Eastern male, when you're in a Chuck Norris movie of the week, you know you're going to die.

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • Movie
  • Die

• The self-taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers;

  

  Mark Twain
  • Know
  • Worked
  • Seldom

• I don't mind that Bill Gates is a mega zillionaire; he's done a lot of really interesting and innovative stuff. I do mind that a lot of unworthy people rode his coattails to minizillionaire status, e.g. the inventor of Hungarian notation, probably the dumbest widely-promulgated idea in the history of the field.

  

  Jon Evans
  • People
  • Mind
  • Done

• The family is the foundation for love and for maintaining spirituality

  

  Quentin L. Cook
  • Family

• Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course towards his objectives in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Control
  • Purpose

• Fortunate is the person who has learned that the most certain way to 'get' is to first 'give' through some sort of useful service.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Person
  • Service
  • Fortunate

• I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• Under constrained discretion, the central bank is free to do its best to stabilize output and employment in the face of short-run disturbances, with the appropriate caution born of our imperfect knowledge of the economy and of the effects of policy (this is the 'discretion' part of constrained discretion).

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Free
  • Knowledge
  • Employment

• Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that the other holds the key to his puzzle.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Keys

• Why, then, even when I advanced, was I so quick to retreat? Why did I always have ready a gracious smile, a happy laugh, when things went badly? Why, sooner or later, did I always find plausible excuses for those who made me suffer?

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Smile
  • Excuses
  • Retreat

• My generation isn’t tolerant of what they see as fake or staged. They’re looking for authenticity and honesty. Journalists who want to reach them need to be able to say, ‘I don’t personally have all the answers, but I do have a good idea about where we’ll find them.'

  

  Nicole Lapin
  • Honesty
  • Generation
  • Authenticity

• I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived.

  

  Harpo Marx
  • Fortunate
  • Self-Taught
  • Harpist