Haskell Wexler Quotes

Well, there is a contradiction in a sense. If you're making commercials which sell products which are unhealthy or which are unnecessary, I think that you are part of a system - I am part of a system which encourages people to buy things and do things which are not to their best interest. And to that extent you could say it was contradictory.

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• It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Great
  • Light
  • Day

• Sadly, for those who are busy sawing off their feet to escape the trap of cliches, every story is chock full of them and sometimes depends on an especially hoary one.

  

  Rafael Yglesias
  • Story
  • Feet
  • Busy

• Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • House
  • Saying
  • Depressed

• Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.

  

  Vic Mignogna
  • Live
  • Know
  • Acting

• Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • I Can
  • Train
  • Bed

• I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up to all of your readers that it doesn't have to be between Thai and Mexican every night. Toss some Hungarian in every once in a while. You will not be sorry. Good, solid peasant food.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• 'HIM' is much more of a British, coming-of-age series, while 'Stranger Things' is very obviously a sci-fi drama.

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • Age
  • Things
  • Drama

• Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their consumption - it's not a bottomless pit.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • People
  • Bad
  • Want

• It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Book
  • History
  • Political

• MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.

  

  Annette Funicello

• You know, in playing a role like this, you really want to get it right, because this is a person who was revered by so many doctors, women doctors especially.

  

  Mary Stuart Masterson
  • Women

• The Indian wars have never ended in the Americas.

  

  Leslie Marmon Silko
  • Wars
  • Indian
  • Ended

• Nature is about balance. All the world comes in pairs - Yin and Yang, right and wrong, men and women; whats pleasure without pain?

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• I've always loved teaching acting. I think it helps me to kind of get back to basics. It's like a refresher course for me as well, so in a sense, I'm hopefully learning as much as my students are - or at least discovering or re-discovering as much as they are. I find that when I teach, I'm reminded of my own sort of failings. I'm reminded of where I sometimes keep going wrong.

  

  Alfred Molina
  • Learning
  • Teach
  • Students

• He's a real go-getter. He's got a lot of energy and strong beliefs.

  

  Lynn Anderson
  • Real
  • Strong
  • Energy

• If we will make use of prayer to call down upon ourselves and others those things which will glorify the name of God, then we shall see the strongest and boldest promises of the Bible about prayer fulfilled. Then we shall see such answers to prayer as we had never thought were possible.

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Bible

• What acts as a far more effective circumstance for generating compassion and what, in fact, rouses us from our comfortable meditation seat is actually seeing or hearing others - encountering others directly, not just conceptually in our imagination.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Imagination
  • Compassion
  • Meditation

• As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.

  

  Nadeem Aslam
  • Work
  • Homeland
  • Desks

• The liquid drops of tears that you have shed Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl, Advantaging their loan with interest Of ten times double gain of happiness.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Tears
  • Interest
  • Loan

• It is not the project but the living process that will be the measure of our actions.

  

  David Holmgren
  • Process
  • Actions
  • Projects

• My parents were Muscovites. They worked at the Kaliber factory.

  

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky
  • Parent
  • Worked
  • Factories

• God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, "Children, be like your parents." Jesus said, "Parents, be like your children."

  

  Vance Havner
  • God
  • Children
  • Parents

• [The Cretans have] more wit than words.

  

  Plato
  • Words
  • Wit

• Well, there is a contradiction in a sense. If you're making commercials which sell products which are unhealthy or which are unnecessary, I think that you are part of a system - I am part of a system which encourages people to buy things and do things which are not to their best interest. And to that extent you could say it was contradictory.

  

  Haskell Wexler
  • Products
  • Commercials