Al Meyerhoff Quotes

With chemicals, it's shoot first and ask questions later.

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• No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Learning
  • Something

• One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • American
  • Tools
  • Accusation

• Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Think
  • Look
  • Now

• I need this wild life, this freedom.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • WIld

• Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Power

• In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Money
  • Parents
  • Books

• I guess that I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, largely because of 'Frankenstein' being such a heavy song - you know, it was really hard rock, almost a precursor of heavy metal and just the image of the synthesizer. I happened to be the first guy to get the idea of putting a strap on the keyboard.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Guy
  • Song
  • Know

• The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Time
  • Different
  • Attitude

• I feel like I was born to do this... I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Good
  • Easy
  • Immigration

• There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only by market rules.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Rules
  • China
  • Dare

• I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Know
  • Dying

• War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Up
  • War
  • Storm

• It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Different
  • Think
  • Kind

• A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Television
  • Modern
  • Group

• The pain is necessary. Sometimes pain is the teacher we require, a hidden gift of healing and hope.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Hope
  • Pain
  • Sometimes

• To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Happy

• I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.

  

  John Travolta
  • Dance
  • Ability
  • Cinema

• So that's little Scorpious. Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank god you've inherited your mother's brains.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • God
  • Mother
  • Brain

• We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that matter, genocide is peace when you get right down to it. The historical consequences of a philosophy predicated on the notion of no war at any cost are families flying to the Super Bowl accompanied by three or four trusted slaves and a Europe devoid of a single living Jew.

  

  Bill Whittle
  • Fight
  • Philosophy
  • Slavery

• The most insistent and formidable concern of agriculture, wherever it is taken seriously, is the distinct individuality of every farm, every field on every farm, every farm family, and every creature on every farm.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Family
  • Taken

• Marlon Brando was the absolute opposite of everything they told me he was going to be, which is that he was a testy guy who wants to know that he's in control of everything. But, that's not who Marlon was. No matter what he did, the most important thing on his mind was justice.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Guy
  • Control
  • Marlon Brando

• If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Different
  • Thought
  • Process

• With chemicals, it's shoot first and ask questions later.

  

  Al Meyerhoff
  • Questions
  • Shoot
  • Chemicals