Owen Wister Quotes

In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars, for all passengers, being Americans, are equal and it would be 'unAmerican.' But paint 'Pullman' on a car and everyone is satisfied.

Owen Wister

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• One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.

  

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• I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be a chef,' and my dad said, 'Be a lawyer.' But instead, I auditioned for N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts.

  

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• I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology.

  

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• I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

  

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• When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.

  

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• When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.

  

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• My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.

  

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• One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

  

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• I am an inventor of music.

  

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• I wanted to be the first female, young teenager producer, and it didn't happen. And when it finally did happen, I was shelved because I was signed to Warner Bros.

  

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  • Young
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• I don't care if the audience is 600 Saul Bellows; I'm going to knock them dead with a comedy routine. I'm out there as a missionary for literature because, if people laugh and enjoy themselves, they might actually do something as bizarre as reading the book.

  

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  • People
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• We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is developing at a tremendous rate, and this decision means that we can now prepare to welcome the world's best athletes to a fascinating place.

  

  Otto Schily
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• It's estimated that one million girls in India 'disappear' every year.

  

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• Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or ideas that happened to pick them in order to be made known to the world.

  

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• There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

  

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  • Funny
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• We work in an environment where your options are to do, you know, Batman 10, so when you get to do a movie that's a really great film like this, people really step up to the plate and enjoy it.

  

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  • People
  • Up
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• I don't think any of us know how we would react until we were put in a situation where we have to do something bad or do something good. I think I'd like to believe I'd act like a decent human being, but I'm realistic to know I don't know.

  

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• If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.

  

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  • Communication

• Living in L.A. keeps me in my car a lot, and I'm constantly flipping back and forth between the following Sirius/XM Radio stations: NFL Radio, MLB Radio, POTUS, MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News.

  

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  • Me
  • Car
  • News

• The rich did not care who ruled, as long as they were allowed to be rich. The poor could not afford to care and nobody asked their opinion in any case. Only the middle class mattered and any half-witted ruler knows how to pamper them.

  

  Anand Neelakantan
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Class

• In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars, for all passengers, being Americans, are equal and it would be 'unAmerican.' But paint 'Pullman' on a car and everyone is satisfied.

  

  Owen Wister
  • Car
  • Firsts
  • Class