George Jessel Quotes

This case reminds me of one in which I likened the Plaintiff's case to a colander, because it was so full of holes.

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• I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Anniversary
  • Her
  • Buried

• I think that the 'Bourne Trilogy,' it's definitely redefined the genre and took it to a new level. It was really great to be part of that experience. It is a very smart movie and a very smart script, great director, and great, you know, fellow actors.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Movie

• It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Way
  • Thought
  • Hollywood

• There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Interesting
  • Present
  • Which

• Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Writing
  • True
  • Fiction

• The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• We do participate in the government programs, like probably 95 percent of farmers do. People who aren't familiar with the agriculture industry, you know, try and make that look like something exceptional.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • People
  • Know
  • Government

• If I were to take an undergraduate chemistry exam, I would probably fail.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Fail
  • Chemistry
  • Were

• Phones remain a critical component of the Microsoft device portfolio and an important piece of our mobility strategy, but a restructuring is in order.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Important
  • Strategy

• When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• I wanna make weird stuff.

  

  Flume
  • Weird
  • Stuff
  • Wanna

• From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• I think that anybody coming out and saying, 'This is who I am, and let me show it to you...' is good for the world.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • World
  • Show

• If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Artist
  • Successful
  • Greatest

• I used to watch 'Coming to America' every day after school. I have full-on long-running inside jokes with friends and family about different scenes in that movie alone. Also, my brother and I loved 'The Golden Child,' so, yeah: I was a huge fan of Eddie Murphy growing up.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Up
  • Different
  • Long

• Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Want
  • You
  • Now

• In New Mexico... I may have vetoed more legislation as governor of New Mexico than all the other governors in the country combined.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • May
  • New

• So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don't live my life that way, and I don't feel that's what Baha'u'llah teaches.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Life
  • Live
  • Religion

• I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.

  

  Brendan Coyle
  • School
  • Wish
  • Wisdom

• I do, I do!. There were songs like Ryan Adams' song 'Come Pick Me Up' that was sort of part of the writing. The Patty Griffin song 'Long Ride Home' you just try and earn with your script. Most great songs are their own movie without your help. So you just try to earn them really.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Up
  • Great
  • Long

• I have a certain temperament, a disposition that I think lends itself to not playing outside the lines that much. But I do test the boundaries, certainly, and break one or two of my own. Some people are mystified by it, but not me.

  

  David Sanborn
  • People

• So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Nice
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  • Cooking

• By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • You
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  • Improvement

• This case reminds me of one in which I likened the Plaintiff's case to a colander, because it was so full of holes.

  

  George Jessel