Oscar Hammerstein II Quotes

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

Oscar Hammerstein II

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• I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Money
  • Success
  • Kind

• If the television market collapses - and it will collapse - then, it seems, there is too much regulation, and that's not a good thing.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Good
  • Television
  • Too Much

• The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Little
  • Matters
  • Field

• Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Believe

• I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Know

• The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Children
  • Focus
  • Football

• I love dressing up in superhero outfits and in fact, when I dress up as Wonder Woman, I actually think that I'm more powerful.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Powerful
  • Woman
  • Fact

• I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Thinking
  • College
  • Smart

• There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Art
  • Like
  • Modern

• If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Good
  • Song
  • Take

• I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Like
  • Same
  • Two

• Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Never
  • Boy

• Chicken... I am a black man, we love our chicken, but I don't eat it anymore. My genotype means I don't process it as well as other things. But I eat lamb twice a week; that is a super food for me.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Man
  • Food
  • Process

• I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.

  

  Kate Seredy
  • Long
  • Money
  • Heart

• I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.

  

  Sam Tsui
  • Music
  • Writing
  • College

• I don't like attacking.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Like
  • Attacking

• A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Thought
  • Invisible

• Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Believe
  • Learning
  • Best

• There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Easy
  • Genius
  • Mountain

• They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • God
  • Beautiful
  • Shoes

• Balthazar has a great New York vibe with the accent of a Parisian brasserie. I usually have the corned beef hash with a fried egg on top and wash it all down with Krug Champagne.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Great
  • New York
  • Down

• You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • You
  • Energy
  • Yourself

• If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
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