Carl Reiner Quotes

Can someone please explain to me what that was all about?

Carl Reiner

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• I always try to make films in such a way that it's hard to imagine how they came to be, or where they came from.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Way
  • Always
  • Try

• When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Reality

• I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Me
  • Loved
  • Him

• There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • May
  • Distance

• In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Quality

• We're told all the time to give up everything for love. That's the Western notion of what love is - love conquers all, all you need is love. And there are so many different kinds of outside, conflicting pressures on women.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Time
  • Women
  • Love

• This is not a political issue. I know Florida's leadership has talked about a real commitment to helping our veterans. Now it's time for them to show it.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Time
  • Real
  • Political

• Most music careers slowly but surely go down.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Music
  • Down
  • Go

• Peace between Israel and Palestine would be a giant step toward greater regional stability, and it would finally let both Israelis and Palestinians benefit from the Middle East's growing wealth.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Growing
  • Peace
  • Wealth

• Whoso walketh in solitude, And inhabiteth the wood, Choosing light, wave, rock, and bird, Before the money-loving herd, Into that forester shall pass From these companions power and grace.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Power
  • Light

• Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Question
  • Wish

• Because in big and diverse societies like ours, progress ultimately depends on something more basic, and that is how we see each other. And we know from experience what makes nations strong. And Neha I think did a great job of describing the essence of what’s important here. We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Important
  • Job

• I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Past
  • Lies
  • Excuses

• I have been willing, in the case of civil statutes, to acknowledge a doctrine of scrivener's error that permits a court to give an unusual (though not unheard of) meaning to a word which, if given its normal meaning, would produce an absurd and arguably unconstitutional result.

  

  Antonin Scalia

• (on his firing from Two and a Half Men) I would have fired my ass too. Well, maybe not like they did.

  

  Charlie Sheen
  • Men

• Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.

  

  Leonhard Euler
  • People
  • Country

• An artist must possess consummate technique in order to make us forget it.

  

  Auguste Rodin

• All of us in the modern world are constructing our identities, largely through social media, for a larger audience.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • World

• It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, rubbing elbows with the likes of Aldous Huxley and T.E. Lawrence, before World War I shattered everything forever.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • World
  • War
  • Amazing

• 'Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.

  

  Peter Dinklage
  • Game
  • Amazing

• Fire fast: Fire people who do not fit into the culture of your company and who are negative.

  

  Jason Calacanis
  • People
  • Culture
  • Fire

• The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker's hands. It has been modified by many great revolutions, brought about by an inner mechanism of which we very imperfectly comprehend the movements; but of which we gain a glimpse by studying their effects: and their many causes still acting on the surface of our globe with undiminished power, which are changing, and will continue to change it, as long as it shall last.

  

  Adam Sedgwick
  • World
  • Great
  • Long

• Can someone please explain to me what that was all about?

  

  Carl Reiner