Erich von Stroheim Quotes

The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love.

Erich von Stroheim

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• Television is democracy at its ugliest.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Democracy
  • Politics
  • Ugliest

• God doesn't know things. He is things.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • God
  • Know
  • Things

• Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • People
  • Great
  • Science

• Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Science
  • Freedom
  • Progress

• Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Democracy
  • Criticism
  • Cheers

• Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Beautiful

• Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Why
  • Society

• All I can say is, I don't encourage younger kids to read my books, and actually, the biggest age group on my Facebook page is 25- to 35-year-old women.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Women
  • Kids
  • Age

• Sailing is such a variable sport. There could be no wind, or there could be 25 knots. You never know what you're going to get.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • Know
  • Wind
  • Sailing

• Quite often you hear people say, 'What about separation of church and state?' There is no such thing.

  

  Dan Severson
  • People
  • You
  • Church

• I think the understanding of the role of markets has really helped advance the values of entrepreneurship. It's helped shape public policy discussions in a whole variety of ways.

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • Think
  • Understanding
  • Values

• The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Man
  • Knowledge
  • Suffering

• God, being a great abyss, to men his depth reveals Who climb the highest peak of the eternal hills

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Great
  • God
  • Men

• Ninety percent of the hands aren't shown in a poker game.

  

  Doyle Brunson
  • Game

• I like that show 'Ray Donovan' - I'm obsessed with that. He's in Hollywood, he's some kind of a fixer, but he's also kind of a thug. And 'Scandal,' the D.C. one with Kerry Washington.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Thug

• Never waste a crisis.

  

  Mark Rutte

• The owner of a company with supertight margins - say, a restaurant, retailer, or producer of commodity goods - would be a fool not to keep a close eye on the numbers. But when I make big decisions, numbers are seldom, if ever, the tiebreaker.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Fool

• In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Free
  • Light
  • Brave

• With all the stuff that's going on in the world - after I watch the news, read the news, and listen to my podcasts, at the end of the day, am I really going to watch an episode of murder and time travel?

  

  Betty Gilpin
  • Time
  • World
  • Travel

• I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security.

  

  David Cameron
  • Trying
  • Society
  • Perfect

• I need to learn to be happy and enjoy the achievement rather than already thinking about what I could have done better.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Happy

• It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Years
  • New
  • Ice

• The Trump phenomenon shows us how much fear of Muslims there is out there and how easily it can be exploited.

  

  Deeyah Khan
  • Fear
  • Trump

• The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love.

  

  Erich von Stroheim
  • Picture
  • Literally
  • Overwhelmed