Howard Stern Quotes

Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?

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• I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Life
  • President
  • Prison

• It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Impossible
  • Even
  • Zero

• A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • True
  • Man
  • Thing

• No man was ever great by imitation.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Man
  • Imitation

• If a company is profitable, the founder is in control. If it's not, investors are in control.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Control
  • Company
  • Founder

• If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.

  

  Walter Map
  • Me
  • Die
  • Drinking

• We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Interest

• In the dressing room, we've just made it really Zen: low lighting, lots of candles, and fresh, healthy food.

  

  Flume
  • Food
  • Healthy
  • Lighting

• The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • Destiny
  • Nation
  • Others

• Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • World
  • Work
  • Love

• There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • English

• A film should appeal to sophisticated, profound-thinking people while at the same time entertaining simplistic people. A truly good movie is really enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it. A truly good movie is interesting and easy to understand.

  

  Akira Kurosawa
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I am alive when your fingers are.

  

  Anne Sexton

• 'Play It Again Sam's opening shot is the same as 'Purple Rose's final one: a close-up of a face, rapt in a movie house. I've certainly felt that in my life. I've been known to cry watching Gene Kelly.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Life
  • Up
  • Movie

• There have been times when I've feared for my own well-being in the great scheme of things because, historically, the track record has not been kind to the guitar players in this band.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Great
  • Band

• I love coming to work every single day.

  

  Brock Osweiler
  • Work
  • Single

• I think the strength of the Catholic church is that when it does finally identify a problem, it works to resolve it.

  

  Donald Wuerl
  • Church
  • Catholic

• You don't fix the problem until you define it.

  

  John W. Snow

• Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary, they have babies at such a young age precisely because they are poor--because they do not have the opportunity to acquire an education, because meaningful, well-paying jobs and creative forms of recreation are not accessible to them ... because safe, effective forms of contraception are not available to them.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Age
  • Black
  • Opportunity

• What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro
  • People
  • Fate

• If we really want to love, if we really want to live, we must love until it hurts . . . No Rotarian whose motto is Service Above Self, I think, should call himself a Rotarian if he does not make time to serve . . . If we love, we begin to serve

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Thinking
  • Hurt
  • Should

• Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?

  

  Howard Stern
  • Fate
  • Genius
  • Misunderstood