Karl Marx Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.
-
It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
-
The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
-
In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
-
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
-
But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
-
There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.
-
If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.
-
I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
-
The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
-
As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.
-
When 'Ice Ice Baby' was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox in L.A., a palace in Miami and a mountain cabin in Utah. Then, a few years later, I took a break from touring, saw that my properties had cobwebs, so I sold them, and - to my surprise - I made a huge profit!
-
America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
-
Thirteen years I took on this last book.
-
Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.
-
Nellie Kim, an Olympic champion from the former Soviet Union, got a 10 right after me in '76, but nobody talks about that.
-
You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?
-
Do I have to use my feet? Can I knock the window out with my head?
-
I love those who do not know how to live for today.
-
We're careful not to saturate people.
-
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
-
God turned to speak to me (Don't anybody laugh); God found I wasn't there At least not over half.
-
A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.
