Mickey Rivers Quotes

We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes.

Mickey Rivers

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• I would see anything by Antony Gormley.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • See
  • Anything
  • Would

• Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Different
  • Wrestling
  • Less

• I don't think good and evil are polarized.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Good And Evil

• I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Cool

• I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.

  

  Eden Sher
  • World
  • Family
  • Learn

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Taken
  • Make
  • Sure

• We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Strong
  • Fighting
  • Opinion

• I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Look
  • Three
  • Jerusalem

• My rhyming skills got you climbing hills, I'll travel through your mind into your spine like siren drills.

  

  Eminem
  • Mind
  • Travel

• First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • Freedom
  • Control
  • Beginning

• I have always loved tartans - such an ornamented type of weaving, so vivid in colour, and such a masculine aspect. But actually, I think tartans can be feminine or masculine.

  

  Christian Louboutin

• Barack Obama's large contributor was Goldman Sachs - same thing on the Republican side. If you go to both their conventions, you see the same lobbyists paying off both sides so they win either way.

  

  Jesse Ventura

• Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.

  

  Louis D. Brandeis

• I loved 'The Wizard Of Oz.' It was, like, you know how some kids, they're crying, and they put on - people put on 'Frozen' to get them to chill and just be quiet? For my family, it was 'The Wizard Of Oz.' They would literally tell babysitters, if she gets - like, if she starts misbehaving or she starts acting crazy, just put 'The Wizard Of Oz' on.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • People
  • Family
  • She

• The Devil, of course, must have been or must be a very charming person.

  

  Max von Sydow
  • Devil

• I don't just want to go out there and do my job - I want to excel at it. I hold myself to a high standard. I expect to make plays that alter the game, and if I don't, I hold myself accountable.

  

  Clay Matthews III
  • Job
  • High
  • Game

• I always admired very much the virtuosity in Strauss because, really, he's a master of using the orchestra. And I like virtuosity, I must say, even if the taste of the music is not always mine.

  

  Pierre Boulez
  • Music

• I am usually cooking at least four times a week if I am home. The easiest thing that I do a lot is gazpacho. It's simple and it tastes best if you let it sit over night in the refrigerator... I don't want anybody near me when I am cooking. If I am going to make a mistake, it has to be my fault.

  

  Leonard Slatkin
  • Home
  • Night
  • Simple

• The crossroads of science and politics is a dodgy place.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Science
  • Politics
  • Place

• We had an awfully good ball club that was capable of beating anybody. They were that good.

  

  John Oldham
  • Good

• One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.

  

  David Simon
  • People
  • World
  • Power

• We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes.

  

  Mickey Rivers
  • Mistake
  • Capitalize