Joseph L. Mankiewicz Quotes

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Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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• In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Help
  • Safety

• As a brand, Ahla is one of Strauss-Elite's strongest. But we need to do a lot of marketing in order to regain market leadership. I have no doubt that we will do that, even if it takes time.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Time
  • Doubt
  • Leadership

• I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?

  

  Halsey
  • Up
  • Music
  • Dark

• A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Trying
  • Food
  • Famous

• Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Home
  • Think

• I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Long
  • Pretty

• God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • God
  • Want
  • Hands

• If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Movie
  • Reason
  • Person

• People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Death
  • Wish

• I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Write
  • Serve
  • Skeletons

• It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Better
  • Modern
  • Retro

• If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Hurt
  • Creative
  • Blame

• I know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Know
  • Greek
  • Mythology

• Men learn to call pain 'glory'; women learn to call the police.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Pain

• You are my fav'rite star, My haven in heaven above, You are ev'rything I love.

  

  Cole Porter
  • Heaven
  • Star

• I've been to location shoots in Mexico before, and everyone ends up getting sick.

  

  Ann Rutherford
  • Up
  • Sick

• My mother was the strong wife, partner, and co-worker Martin Luther King, Jr. needed to be an effective leader, and he said so on many occasions.

  

  Bernice King
  • Mother
  • Strong
  • Wife

• In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day.

  

  Joachim du Bellay
  • Night
  • Opinion

• I knew that I had to write my memoirs.

  

  Jane Fonda

• There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the brain. Based on this, people have calculated that the number of permutations and combinations of brain activity exceeds the number of elementary particles in the universe.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • People
  • Universe
  • Brain

• Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are in your own homes and in your own families, in your workplaces and in your schools. You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see. Everywhere, wherever you go, you find people who are unwanted, unloved, uncared for, just rejected by society completely forgotten, completely left alone.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • School
  • Home

• The real challenge in doing a TV show is in what I would call the maintenance energy. You take that creative energy and you use it every week, of course. But you then need to maintain the quality of the stories, and it's harder to do.

  

  Chris Carter
  • Real
  • Energy
  • Quality

• I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Guy
  • Interesting
  • Singing

• There's nothing as real as money.

  

  Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  • Real
  • Money