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

• They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Show
  • Materials
  • Tease

• 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

• I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Friends

• 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

• You would not believe that Paula Patton and I have the same trainer.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Believe
  • You
  • Same

• 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 think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.

  

  Christina Romer
  • Financial

• I do interviews and signings and readings and all of these people just hang off my every word. And then I go home and have dinner with my family and nobody lets me get a word in.

  

  Kathy Reichs
  • People
  • Family
  • Home

• Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.

  

  Victor Grignard
  • First
  • Possible
  • Speaking

• When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Music
  • Country
  • School

• I think the first Broadway show that I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' and that was in 5th or 6th grade. Our school would take bus trips up to see shows, and so it was on one of their bus trips that I got to see 'Beauty and the Beast.'

  

  Jonathan Groff
  • Up
  • School

• 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