George Mikes Quotes

Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school.

George Mikes

• School
• Television
• Poison
• Educational
• Speaking
• West
• Gangster
• Embezzled

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• Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Difficult

• In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • American
  • Man

• I was authorized to do everything that I did.

  

  Oliver North
  • Everything
  • Did
  • Authorized

• The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Age
  • Beginning
  • Enlightenment

• Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Education
  • Childhood
  • Early

• You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Long
  • Support
  • Passion

• Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.

  

  Owen Paterson
  • Change
  • Climate Change

• It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Life
  • Odd
  • Playwright

• I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Myself
  • Better
  • Need

• I am really bad with cleaning my closet.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Cleaning
  • Closet

• Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Life
  • Real
  • Blood

• When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Journalism
  • Racket
  • Freelancer

• Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Feeling
  • Poetry
  • Poet

• I'm not good at dressing up fancy; I always just do my thing, which is whatever I'm in the mood for.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Up
  • Good
  • Mood

• I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.

  

  Jeanette Winterson

• For the animals, they came from the University in Uppsala and all different kinds of clinics here.

  

  Lennart Nilsson
  • Different

• Once I turned 40, my whole life changed in the most mature - not boring way but much cooler way. I feel much more like an adult.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Life

• I went to university and I was a bit out of my depth, socially.

  

  Jason Isaacs

• Most people know nobody in the military.

  

  James Mattis
  • People
  • Military

• My dear citizens, fellow citizens, French people, this 6th of May, have just chosen change by bringing me the presidency of the French republic. I feel the honor, which has been given to me and the task, the important task faced beyond - in front of you to serve my country.

  

  Francois Hollande
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• I have a little easier time watching the NFL than college or high school. I used to go to the high school games, and now I have trouble with it. The NFL players get big rewards from it. I feel at least the NFL has made big changes to help their safety. And they're adults - they can make good decisions.

  

  Ann McKee
  • Time
  • Good
  • School

• When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier.

  

  Brady Anderson
  • Jump

• Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school.

  

  George Mikes
  • School
  • Television
  • Poison