Steve Tisch Quotes

Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor.

Steve Tisch

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• I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Writing
  • Singing
  • Dreams

• Got ants in my pants and I need to dance, so big fine mama, come give me a chance.

  

  James Brown
  • Giving
  • Dance
  • Chance

• Just because you have a hit doesn't mean you're good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Good
  • Music
  • Hit

• It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will be written after him.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Books
  • Responsible
  • Writers

• I want people to know they don’t have to live their lives in a permanent ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ existence. Truth is a powerful tool.

  

  E. Lynn Harris
  • People
  • Live
  • Truth

• I must have dialogue with the Chinese government, and dialogue requires compromise. Therefore, I'm speaking for genuine self-rule, not for independence.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Government
  • Chinese
  • Self

• It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address the impending financial debacle. After all, they and their predecessors engineered the approaching tsunami. As the situation becomes direr, the federal government's actions will grow more oppressive.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Believe
  • Action
  • Financial

• Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Nature
  • Sleep

• The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music.

  

  will.i.am
  • Music
  • Different
  • Way

• The planets are not hunks of stuff out there but nodes of vibration that resonate in multiple dimensions that enfold themselves into one another in patterns of complex recursiveness in which Sun, Moon, and Saturn are also modalities of Earth.

  

  William Irwin Thompson
  • Earth
  • Moon
  • Unity

• Exuberance is beauty.

  

  William Blake
  • Beauty
  • Exuberance

• I got the sexton, who was digging Linton's grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again - it is hers yet - he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Work
  • Change
  • Grave

• We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness meaningful for nations poisoned by the misery of this century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called superhuman when men take a long time to complete them, that is all.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Justice
  • Happiness
  • Superhuman

• I hold to fiction as a cure, or partial cure, or cause for hope, or essential distraction from the rain you wake up to, the doubts in your head, the daily desolation that you have not yet said what is most true, you have not yet crafted the story that reveals you. And therefore something waits. Therefore you must wake and you must write and you are not alone. Your fiction is with you.

  

  Beth Kephart
  • Hope
  • Story
  • Fiction

• Sitting in this chair, my recommendation would carry too much weight.

  

  Michael Ritchie
  • Would
  • Weight
  • Sitting

• Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor.

  

  Steve Tisch
  • Deals
  • Possessed
  • Makers