Erich von Stroheim Quotes

As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl.

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• Do you know what integration really means? It means intermarriage. That's the real point behind it. You can't have it without intermarriage. And that would result in disintegration of both races.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Real
  • Know
  • Behind

• I love being in Malibu. It's so cool there, and the water is just, it's nice and, and I love the beach. And I found a sand dollar there.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Nice
  • Cool
  • Beach

• I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Think
  • Baseball
  • Themes

• I understand that in some families both parents have to work, so the kids are home alone eating more processed foods. But if the kids know how to make oatmeal or eggs in the morning or pasta or a lentil soup at night - we're giving them real survival tools.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Work
  • Real
  • Home

• I came from a Sorkin-like project in the sense that there was no freedom to change a line, which, in a weird way, is its own freedom because you're living within that structure and know this is what it is. You just adjust. Every project has its own personality.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Freedom
  • Weird
  • Personality

• We're not always in the position that we want to be at. We're constantly growing, we're constantly making mistakes, we're constantly trying to express ourselves and trying to actualize our dreams.

  

  Kanye West
  • Trying
  • Dream
  • Growing

• Actually, there is no way of making vomiting courteous. You have to do the next best thing, which is to vomit in such a way that the story you tell about it later will be amusing.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Stories
  • Luck
  • Vomiting

• I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable.

  

  Rachel Cohn

• By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.

  

  Epictetus
  • Free
  • Fighting
  • Accepting

• We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Months
  • Mother’s Day

• We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Ocean
  • Lottle Drop

• We want a home field advantage for our team, and we want to provide excellent service to our fans.

  

  Amy Trask
  • Want
  • Team
  • Fans

• Yet, despite his best efforts and intentions, Barack Obama, unlike George W. Bush, will leave office without having found a way to persuade Congress to raise the minimum wage for all workers nationwide. Thus, as of this writing, the federal minimum wage remains $7.25—which, in terms of purchasing power, is lower than it was in 1968. Little wonder that so many working Americans are struggling.

  

  Bill Press
  • Wonder
  • Congress
  • Americans

• When I create a TV show, it's so that I can write it. I'm not an empire builder; my writing staff is usually a combination of two kinds of people - experts in the world the show is set in, and young writers who will not be unhappy if they're not writing scripts.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it.

  

  Dan Flavin
  • Light
  • Instrument
  • Electric

• Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Different
  • Loud
  • Spoken

• As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl.

  

  Erich von Stroheim
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