Cecil Jacobson (Cecil Byran Jacobson) Quotes
I can't imagine any reasonably responsible person arguing against the abortion of mongols ... If we could tell what foetuses are going to be affected with cancer in their 40s and 50s, I would be for aborting them now.
Quotes to Explore
-
It's better to do a film that works.
-
If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
-
People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
-
In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
-
I envision the script as a story in my mind, memorize the entire thing and have it play out. It helps me figure out where my character needs to go.
-
I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
-
Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
-
Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.
-
The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
-
College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.
-
But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.
-
My confidence comes from my fights and my training.
-
I can't say that the ending of a story is always the best part of the story, and yet there's sort of this implicit idea that the finale is somehow supposed to be the mind-blowing best episode of a show. The question is: Why is that? Why do people make that assumption?
-
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
-
A great-great grandpa (there might be another great in there, I'm not sure) offered a gun and horse to anyone that would join the Confederacy in '64. Who cares if it was 1964. Give the guy a break. He had Alzheimer's and thought he was Jefferson Davis. (p. 5).
-
I was the boss of ambassadors in 270 countries.
-
What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
-
I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella, in my tiny cell in boarding school, and whole worlds of possibility opened out that I had never guessed existed. The language was on fire and sang of liberation.
-
I think all these reverend gentlemen who insist on the word 'obey' in the marriage service should be removed for a clear violation of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, which says there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude within the United States.
-
My favorite word is clarity...clarity...clarity. And the critical clarity is what is the transformation that is going to take place in the customer's life or work when they buy and use your product? And how profound is that? How important is that? You know the old saying, "If you could come up with a cure for cancer you'd be a billionaire by the end of the week" because of that profound result.
-
I looked around the iTunes store and came across Dr. Moku's Hiragana Mnemonics. Thirty minutes later I had memorized all 46 hiragana. Now my 9-year-old is learning them, and having a lot of fun.
-
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
-
I can't imagine any reasonably responsible person arguing against the abortion of mongols ... If we could tell what foetuses are going to be affected with cancer in their 40s and 50s, I would be for aborting them now.
