Carl Reiner Quotes
When you denigrate people, they have two ways to fight back - with their fists and guns, or their mouths. And mouths are seemingly the easiest way to not get hit back. If people are laughing, they're not going to hit you.Carl Reiner
Quotes to Explore
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
Flume -
Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
Ian Anderson -
My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
Natalie Portman -
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
Edmund Burke -
Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
Parker Harris -
I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
Yair Lapid
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
Tasha Smith -
I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
Yasmine Al Masri -
I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
Carlene Carter -
To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
Patrick MacGill -
A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
Kate Grenville
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
Barbara Kingsolver -
When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.
Karen Salmansohn -
You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
Takeru Kobayashi -
I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
Rachel Weisz -
Like every girl, we don't talk about our surgeries.
Candis Cayne
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It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.
Gerry Mulligan -
I think it's important for people to know that there's no such thing as a perfect relationship, you know?
Kristin Cavallari -
Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.
Paul Mazursky -
When you denigrate people, they have two ways to fight back - with their fists and guns, or their mouths. And mouths are seemingly the easiest way to not get hit back. If people are laughing, they're not going to hit you.
Carl Reiner