Ernie Kovacs Quotes
There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: Beat it to death if it succeeds.
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I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
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Economically, ISIS is making money every day on the black market with their oil fields. But they are also putting money in banks. We know where those banks are. We should go after the banks and the facilitators using them.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
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The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.
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Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.
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I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.
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Know today that God approves of you. He's pleased with you. He may not always be pleased with your choices or some of the things you do, but when God looks at you, He sees His amazing creation.
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One thing I know that's true about horror fans of any color is they like to be scared. And the easiest place to be scared is in a new thing.
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The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.
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Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.
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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
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I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children’s story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children’s story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can like only when you are waltzing is a bad waltz.
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People would ask me, 'what do you want to be when you're older?' and I'd be like, 'a singer', and they'd be like, 'what do you really want to be?' and I'd be like, 'oh, I really want to be a singer.'
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This is for my peoples who just lost somebody,your best friend, your baby, your man or your lady,put your hand way up high,we will never say bye,mamas, daddies, sisters, brothers, friends and cousins,this is for my peoples who lost their grandmothers,lift your head to the sky,cause we will never say bye.
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When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined with her power of tenacious retention, has exerted an influence, the value of which is too vast to be measured.
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If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies; they say the United States won the war and saved the world.
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The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.
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South Koreans would rather see their state's security compromised than risk their own prosperity. Let’s not overestimate South Koreans’ attachment to their own state, which a sizable but influential minority still considers illegitimate.
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There's something so relentless and foul about Hitler and his people, and the way things progressed from year to year. It just got to me in the strangest way.
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The relationships I've had with animals are often some of the most profound. That's why you cry when a dog dies in a movie. The connection is so deep and so profound, and it isn't cluttered by humanity.
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There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: Beat it to death if it succeeds.
