Samuel Foote Quotes

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• I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Simple
  • I Can
  • Simple Things

• Politics is largely a matter of heart.

  

  R. A. Butler
  • Heart
  • Politics
  • Matter

• The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Time
  • Financial
  • Economics

• Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Long
  • Film
  • Three

• I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Goal

• Fly-fishing is really addictive.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Fly
  • Really
  • Fishing

• The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Like
  • Right

• I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie.

  

  Veronica Lake
  • Sex
  • Symbol
  • Zombie

• A key component of social media is 'following' - and no one is there to see what you have to say on Instagram or Twitter if they aren't motivated to follow you.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Media
  • Motivated
  • Key

• The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

  

  Quintilian
  • Idea
  • Right
  • Misery

• In chess, we have styles - like in any other field. There are also fashions in the kinds of systems that people play. So I'm trying to know my opponent as much as possible.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Trying
  • Chess

• You can easily say, 'I can go 56', but how are you going to do that?

  

  Adam Peaty
  • You
  • Say
  • I Can

• If you had no new technology, and you powered society as we do today - mostly by fossil fuels - you'd have only two choices: Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Today
  • Society

• Deserve your dream.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Dream
  • Motivational
  • Deserve

• Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • People
  • Great
  • Gratitude

• The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Free

• I aint got all that many regrets. I could imagine lots of things that you might think would make a man happier. I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • People
  • Good
  • Sorry

• If I'm a conservative, I'll generally watch Fox. If someone's liberal, they'll generally watch MSNBC. They'll basically learn a set of facts that are completely distinct from one another. They'll get their views validated.

  

  Jeb Bush

• I've had the hat for four years and it keeps getting better with age. It's been in the ocean and the pool several times, yet refuses to be destroyed. The shape only improved with weathering. I bought several for my storefront in NYC, but it felt like a fish out of water in the city. It cries out for the California coastline and the arid deserts of Africa.

  

  Andy Spade
  • Age
  • Better
  • Hat

• Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Up
  • May
  • Free

• Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Decision
  • Moral

• Play me no plays.

  

  Samuel Foote