Ezra Pound Quotes

The only history that matters is the history we know.

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• The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • People
  • Time
  • Freedom

• Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Wife
  • Never
  • Unfaithful

• I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Music
  • Try
  • Again

• Dance has definitely made me a better role model.When I'm performing, I'm always thinking about my face and my look. I used to have a much harder time with it.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Dance

• All of the land of Israel is ours.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Land
  • Israel
  • Ours

• Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Different
  • Opportunity
  • Play

• All I wanted to do was be a working actor.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Actor
  • Working
  • Wanted

• You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • People
  • Know
  • Enjoy

• It's interesting now that basically a CG set is the same cost as a real set. So like if you're going to build a CG house in the suburbs, it costs you $200,000. And if you were going to build it in a computer, it'll cost you $200,000. It's the same... the relationship is exactly the same.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Real
  • House
  • Interesting

• It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Simple
  • Balance
  • Too Much

• I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • House
  • Technology

• The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Best
  • Successful
  • Worst

• Lipgloss is my calling!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Calling

• You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • Career
  • You
  • Reach

• I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Difference
  • Second Place

• I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • American
  • Change
  • Agent

• What joy would I get from putting the wrong person behind bars?

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Joy
  • Person
  • Behind

• I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Teach

• I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring.

  

  David Brin
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• People have been able to see that as cheeky and as flirty as I am, I am not the dreadful slapper that the press used to portray me as. But it will probably all turn around and people will hate me again in a couple of years.

  

  Amanda Holden
  • People
  • Hate
  • Couple

• What is one man's and one woman's love and desire, against the history of two worlds, the greatest revolution of our lifetimes, the hope, the unending cruelty of our species? A little thing. But a key is a little thing, next to the door it opens.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • History
  • Hope
  • Desire

• So many times, I will have people tell me what I did when I was younger. There's so much being written [about] the early Beatles period, and even pre-Beatles period. And people will say, "Oh, he did that because that, and that happened because of that." And I'll be reading and think, "Well, that didn't happen" and, "That's not why I did that." Like anyone's history, you remember what went down better than people who weren't there.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Why

• The second half of the 20th century was a golden age of molecular biology, and it was one of the golden ages of the history of science. Molecular biology was so successful and made such a powerful alliance with the medical scientists that the two together just flourished. And they continue to flourish.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Together
  • History
  • Age

• The only history that matters is the history we know.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • History
  • Know
  • Matters