Edgar Bronfman, Sr. Quotes
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It's those damn critics again.
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I always played to win.
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I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry.
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If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow.
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There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.
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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
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When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed.
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I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
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I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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'Big Bang Theory' is not my kind of show. It's not my humor. I don't like multicam comedies. I don't want an audience to tell me when to laugh.
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What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else – when you want to be another person.
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Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
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A man's face is not a rich person's lawn; you are wasting resources if you devote that much energy to trimming your beard, sideburns, or mustache just so. Nor is a man's face the woods; there need not be the tangled weeds, shrubbery, and wildlife/eggs benedict that get ensnared in them.
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My mother's a police officer, so there was only so much trouble I could get myself into. But my father grew up on the other side.
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Proof that the penis is a much later development than the female vulva is found in the evidence that the male himself was a late mutation from an original female creature. For man is but an imperfect female. Geneticists and physiologists tell us that the Y chromosome that produces males is a deformed and broken X chromosome — the female chromosome. All women have two X chromosomes, while the male has one X derived from his mother and one Y from his father. It seems very logical that this small and twisted Y chromosome is a genetic error — an accident of nature, and that originally there was only one sex — the female.
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'