Erich von Stroheim Quotes

I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality.

Erich von Stroheim

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• It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Experience
  • Think
  • Vanity

• 'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Great
  • Movie
  • You

• As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • You
  • Know
  • Interview

• What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Happy
  • Nice
  • Day

• I applaud anyone who wants to take on the load that comes with being President of the United States. You really have to love your country to place yourself in that position.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Country
  • Love
  • Yourself

• I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Myself

• Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • Long
  • Black
  • Pain

• When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Writing
  • Emotion
  • Curiosity

• It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Culture
  • Nothing
  • Dead

• It's so fun to play a villain. I get to tap into a side of myself I thought I never had.

  

  Abbie Cobb
  • Fun
  • Myself
  • Thought

• Most days I struggle just to be accepted into the camp of plain old feminists. This is mainly because I am not by nature ideological and generally suspicious of people who are.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • People
  • Nature
  • Struggle

• I find humor to be the most attractive characteristic, but I certainly won't cancel anything out, considering when you love someone you love someone, and sometimes you just can't explain it.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Find
  • Humor
  • Explain

• On a Terrence Malick set, your thoughts are his voice. You think you're thinking, but actually he's thinking for you. He speaks to you, and he's the voice in your mind.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Thoughts

• Senator Clinton is very knowledgeable about national security and is probably going to be strong on defense. I have no doubts whatsoever that if she were president in January '09, she would not act irresponsibly and issue orders to conduct an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, regardless of the consequences, and squander the gains that have been made.

  

  Jack Keane
  • She
  • Strong
  • Security

• But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in few words.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Excellence

• Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand;Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Rock
  • Ugly

• I've spent a lot of years living with normal people. If I take a private jet to go to a meeting in Milan, well, that's my business; I can do it. But I don't live for it.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • People
  • Live
  • Business

• Invest in people who will take care of you when you're old.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • People

• President Obama , I guess, is starting to confess to some of his anxieties. In a recent interview, President Obama said, 'I miss being anonymous.' He said, 'In the old days, I could blend in with all the other Hawaiian Barack Hussein Obamas.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Anonymous
  • Interview
  • President Obama

• If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Like
  • Big

• Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

  

  Cassandra Wilson
  • Black
  • Audience
  • Movement

• I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

  

  Emily VanCamp
  • People
  • Humility
  • Annoying

• You don't stop when a musical number comes up and do the number and then take up the scene where you left off. It all moves forward. Your work as an actor was part of your work as a dancer as well. It was dialogue through movement.

  

  George Chakiris
  • Work
  • Actor
  • Dancer

• I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality.

  

  Erich von Stroheim
  • Quality
  • Spiritual