George Gaynes Quotes

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• We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Feelings
  • Emotional
  • See

• It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • World
  • Home
  • Me

• Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Stop
  • Best
  • Always

• It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

  

  Carl T. Rowan
  • World
  • Home
  • Injustice

• I'd never been published when I was young.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Never
  • Young
  • Published

• Death just comes, not happiness. Because when you're trying to find happiness, you're trying to navigate a very, very murky minefield of distractions, of disappointments, of deceptions. That's why you have to work on happiness.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Why

• Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Life
  • Music
  • Heart

• I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Guy
  • Hate
  • Sweats

• Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • Great
  • Sad
  • Coffee

• Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Development
  • Class
  • West

• The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Good
  • Real
  • Bad

• I shop more than most women.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Women
  • More
  • Most

• We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.

  

  Farley Mowat
  • Good
  • God
  • Important

• At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Night

• We have several million Muslims in France who are mostly moderates or non-practicing. If they feel that it is the only subject in public debate, they won't feel at home and will be tempted to withdraw to their communities.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Home
  • Debate
  • France

• Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Time
  • Book

• A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Name
  • Hip Hop
  • Street

• There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

  

  Jack London
  • Life
  • Living
  • Rise

• I think you can tell a lot by someone's footwear - cowboy boots would put me off, as would a man in Ugg boots or Crocs.

  

  Maxine Peake
  • Cowboy

• I never did theater. I was a theater major at USC my first year because I didn't get into the film school. I was biding my time, hoping to be accepted to film school, and I ended up transferring to UCLA my sophomore year.

  

  Darren Star
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Time
  • Father

• The smaller the company, the larger the conversation.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding

• It's nice to be in demand.

  

  George Gaynes
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