Michael Medved Quotes

If you believe that when the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, then you believe that creating wealth causes poverty, and you're an idiot.

Michael Medved

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• Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

  

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• I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.

  

  Karl Urban
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• There's something pure about our bloodline: There are no accidental kids of gay parents. Every single gay parent desperately, passionately wanted to be a parent. That's neat, and I hope we can keep it that way.

  

  B. D. Wong
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• I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.

  

  Ralph Macchio
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• One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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• You often see in Washington those who disagree you described as stupid or evil. It's one of the most unfortunate trends of modern political discourse. Portraying opponents as too dumb to know the truth but smart enough and wanting people to suffer.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
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• The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.

  

  Dan Scanlon
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• To do a romantic scene is the most unromantic thing to do on screen.

  

  Yami Gautam
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• The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.

  

  Damien Hirst
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• The worst thing you could ever get is people who think they know everything.

  

  Rachel Zoe
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• I refute it thus.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• J'ai vraiment, un vrai bagage dans la tête. S'il y avait pour cela, comme il y a partout ici, des compagnies d'assurance, voilà un ballot je ferais assurer de suite.

  

  Edgar Degas

• The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten.

  

  James Hillman
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• I have a fantastic team, and it's much easier having children, because that creates a natural limit.

  

  Phoebe Philo
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• I've had to learn not to read all the bad comments, or if you do, try and not take it into your soul, body, brain, and heart.

  

  Anne-Marie
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• I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party.

  

  Kirstie Alley
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• I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

  

  Wayne Newton
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• For the first time I began to think, consciously and deliberately of religion and other worlds. The Hindu religion especially went up in my estimation; not the ritual or ceremonial part, but it's great books, the 'Upnishads', and the 'Bhagavad Gita'.

  

  Jawaharlal Nehru
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• If we had no hope - for a cure, for winning the lottery, for falling in love, for the end of war, for being free of abuse, or for having food, warmth, clothing, and shelter - we would have no reason to go on. What you hope for doesn't matter, but rather the essence of hope itself.

  

  Bernie Siegel
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  • Free

• We are continuing to carefully monitor the situation throughout McDowell and several other southern counties, ... We are ready to help wherever needed.

  

  Bob Wise
  • Help
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• Music is an expression of individuality; it's how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there - express it - whether it's sculpture, dance or singing.

  

  David Sanborn
  • World
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• If you believe that when the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, then you believe that creating wealth causes poverty, and you're an idiot.

  

  Michael Medved
  • Believe
  • Poverty
  • Poor