Ernst Lubitsch Quotes
I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
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Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
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I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Pictures can be devastating. Who allowed John Kerry to get himself photographed windsurfing in a flowered swimsuit? Anyone in the real world in that operation?
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I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.
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All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.
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Stop taking pictures and start experiencing life.
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I don't have anything Olympic in our house - no pictures, none of that stuff. Consciously I do that. With 10 children, I don't want to hold that over their heads.
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When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.
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I don't like parties. If I did, there would be pictures of me more often in Gala magazine.
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Has set the standard for excellence in economic policy-making.
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I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.
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In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.
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With this case, we hope to set a new standard for Internet marketers and consumer research companies. Personal information secured through a promise of confidentiality must always remain confidential.
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Nobody rises above mediocrity unless they use the brains of other people.
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When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.
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Letters are things, not pictures of things.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Imagine that you wanted your children to learn the names of all their cousins, aunts and uncles. But you never actually let them meet or play with them. You just showed them pictures of them, and told them to memorize their names. Each day you'd have them recite the names, over and over again. You'd say, "OK, this is a picture of your great-aunt Beatrice. Her husband was your great-uncle Earnie. They had three children, your uncles Harpo, Zeppo, and Gummo. Harpo married your aunt Leonie ... yadda, yadda, yadda.
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True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.
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Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.
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The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior man against his betters.
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I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.
