Michael Curtiz Quotes

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

Michael Curtiz

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• But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Responsibility
  • Enjoy

• Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • Ideas
  • Successful

• Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People
  • Up
  • Religious

• If I were the president, I would tape everything that is said around me and what I said, because we know how sometimes things get misconstrued.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Know
  • Me
  • Sometimes

• It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Possible
  • Prefer
  • Blondes

• Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Good
  • May
  • Happy

• There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much money and too many smart people chasing too few great entrepreneurs.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • People
  • Great
  • Money

• Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • World
  • Knowledge

• Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Always

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• If, in the schools, the classical language would no longer be taught, whom could we entrust with the writing of memorials, documents, letters and notes in the public service? How could we possibly assign important offices and heavy responsibilities to someone who cannot even write fluently?

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Language

• The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Game
  • Situation
  • Fever

• In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.

  

  Hack Wilson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Advice

• I don't like Moscow. It's not my city.

  

  Oleg Deripaska
  • City
  • Like
  • Moscow

• I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • First
  • Read

• When Corporate America finds a Jayson Blair in its midst, the standard operating procedure is to circle the wagons and deny that any form of liability extends up the chain of command.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Up
  • America
  • Circle

• I think there's a lot of things that occur within the African-American community, that we would prefer to stay within the African-American community - that we get a little nervous when you start having scenes or dialogue that we know is going to be viewed and heard on a national or global scale.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • American
  • Know
  • Community

• I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Myself
  • Justice
  • English

• Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with in order to have those customers come into our stores, and we had to compete with other employers for our employees.

  

  John Mackey
  • Different
  • Business

• In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45,000, plus as much as $10,000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.

  

  Bill Dedman
  • Time
  • Work
  • Leadership

• The only way I'll ever run a marathon is if I'm involved in the administration.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Way
  • Run
  • Marathon

• Writing-wise, I started when I was 17. Whatever was bothering me, I could just write about it in a song. I was in the west suburbs of Chicago, then I moved an hour south, and then I went to school up on the South Side - Saint Xavier, though I was at Purdue for a second before I dropped out.

  

  Kiara Saulters
  • Up
  • Writing
  • School

• I received so many hate letters when I breast-fed a starving baby in Africa. I was in Sierra Leone in 2009 and I was weaning my child at that time - she was not there with me. There was a hungry baby who was crying because his mother had no milk, and I thought, 'Why throw away my milk if I can give it to a baby who needs it?'

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • Why
  • She

• So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

  

  Michael Curtiz
  • Mother
  • Always
  • Times