Ernie Kovacs Quotes

There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: Beat it to death if it succeeds.

Ernie Kovacs

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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.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Music
  • Black
  • Culture

• 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.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Money
  • Black
  • Day

• In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Live
  • America
  • Freedom

• All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Want
  • Back
  • Congress

• Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Stronger
  • Israel
  • Curse

• 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.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Like
  • Film
  • Dreams

• 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.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Different
  • Funny
  • Goal

• Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Years
  • Hero
  • Many

• I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Think
  • Funny

• 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.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • May
  • Today

• I don't think, there's no possible way for me, anyway, to play a character that I haven't found some sort of sublime compassion for and I related to Deborah on a way that almost, initially, almost in a way maybe someone in the audience might.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Character
  • Me
  • Compassion

• 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.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • True
  • Know
  • Color

• The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • America

• Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.

  

  Otto Weininger

• The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Science
  • Poetry

• 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.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Children

• 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.'

  

  Leona Lewis
  • People

• 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.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Up
  • Friends
  • High

• 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.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Life
  • Power
  • Value

• There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage, and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Player
  • Chess

• I was a bad kid. I was a really naughty kid. I couldn't read or write. And that was me punishment - going to acting school.

  

  Joe Gilgun
  • School
  • Bad
  • Naughty

• I agree with Scott Turow: A courtroom is inherently dramatic. You walk into court - it's like an ER, you know? Life and death is going on there. And it's moment-by-moment, and it's packed with energy. And even though you think you know what a witness is going to say, you can be wrong. Witnesses surprise you.

  

  Marcia Clark
  • Life
  • Death
  • Energy

• People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

  

  Jerry Gillies
  • People
  • Believe
  • Money

• There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: Beat it to death if it succeeds.

  

  Ernie Kovacs
  • Death
  • Success
  • Medium