Joseph Barbera Quotes

Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot.

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• I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Because
  • Anything
  • Activity

• On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Long
  • War
  • Peace

• The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Criticism
  • Old
  • Tradition

• I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Think
  • Living
  • Paradise

• I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Period
  • Working
  • Everything

• I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Money
  • Space
  • Car

• It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Political
  • Story
  • Loss

• What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Please Everyone

• For me to be with someone, he's got to be fit. Or at least doing something he loves. Following your passion - whether it's hiking or sports or whatever - is super sexy.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Passion
  • Sports
  • Sexy

• What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Myself
  • Bold
  • Savage

• Being a mother is more exhausting than working, and sometimes I push myself too hard and burn myself out. I can appreciate how exhausting it must be for women who have to do everything themselves all the time.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • Women
  • Mother

• The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Work
  • Trying
  • American

• We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Love
  • Expect
  • Expecting

• History reminds us that walls can be torn down. But the task is never easy. True partnership and true progress requires constant work and sustained sacrifice. They require sharing the burdens of development and diplomacy; of progress and peace. They require allies who will listen to each other, learn from each other and, most of all, trust each other.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • History
  • True

• She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

  

  Emma Alice Margaret Asquith
  • She
  • Lies
  • Wedding

• All true languageis incomprehensible,Like the chatterof a beggar’s teeth.

  

  Antonin Artaud
  • True

• I probably took more than anybody could survive. … I was bangin' seven-gram rocks and finishing them because that's how I roll. I have one speed, I have one gear, GO!. … I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. … Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.

  

  Charlie Sheen
  • Different
  • Heart
  • Brain

• The challenge is to keep it fresh. If you're talking about Britney Spears over and over, it's very hard to keep that interesting.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Interesting
  • Challenge

• I never wanted a traditional lifestyle. I'm not that kind of person.

  

  Loni Love

• Very skinny women don't look beautiful in clothes.

  

  Christian Lacroix
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• It appears that the ground of being which underlies and sustains us despite our various inadequate and conflicting stories must be extremely tolerant, generous, and forgiving. All things considered, it wouldn't hurt if we were, too.

  

  Alexei Panshin
  • Hurt
  • Stories
  • Forgiving

• Never give up your day job. I do all sorts of things, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to 'The Today Show,' and I love doing this thing, and they will have to blow me out of here with dynamite before I leave.

  

  Al Roker
  • Up
  • Job
  • Today

• I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have.

  

  Lou Henry Hoover
  • Father
  • Sorry
  • Hunting

• Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot.

  

  Joseph Barbera