Milton Berle Quotes

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• Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

  

  Jack Welch
  • You
  • Change
  • Lead

• When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Want
  • Powerful
  • Perspective

• Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • Best
  • Politicians
  • Seriously

• I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Hate
  • Enjoy
  • Research

• I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Like
  • Feel

• Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • You
  • Government
  • Innovation

• Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • You
  • Education
  • Tired

• I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Working Hard

• I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Career
  • Been
  • Getting

• Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • True
  • Way

• There is a sense of purity in theatre which always attracts me. Deep down, I feel I am more of an artist than a commodity, which Bollywood turns you into. I want to strike a balance.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Deep
  • Balance
  • Theatre

• I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Poetry

• Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Idea
  • Organization
  • Social

• As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Structure
  • Task
  • Internal

• But if we ask where precisely in the brain that point of view is located, the simple assumptions that work so well on larger scales of space and time break down. It is now quite clear that there is no single point in the brain where all information funnels in, and this fact has some far from obvious consequences.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Time
  • Work
  • Single

• What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Red
  • Wine

• In men this blunder still you find,-All think their little set mankind.

  

  Hannah More
  • Men

• The worst form anger can take is that of a parent who feels her or his chance for 'winning my child' is enhanced by 'ruining my ex.' The law has given the most vindictive parent an invitation to play the 'abuse' card. This is the 'Great Temptation.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Great
  • Law
  • Winning

• You are not here in the world for yourself. You have been sent here for others. The world is waiting for you!

  

  Catherine Booth
  • World
  • Waiting
  • Charity

• Going into the second arc, I'm making a conscious effort to do something I say I never do, which is to change my style because of feedback. I'm trying to make 'Pretty Deadly' more accessible by being more clear in the writing.

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • Why
  • Humanity

• So many of the optimists in the world don't own a hundred dollars, and because of their optimism, never will.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • World

• I think gene therapy and nanotechnology go hand in hand.

  

  Liz Parrish
  • Hand

• Committee - a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.

  

  Milton Berle
  • Men
  • Waste
  • Committee