Charles Ludlam (Charles Braun Ludlam) Quotes

If one is not a living mockery of one's own ideals, one has set one's ideals too low.

Charles Ludlam

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• I listen to 'deep dish house'.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • House
  • Deep
  • Listen

• Contact with reality is not an all-or-nothing condition.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Reality
  • Condition
  • Contact

• I don`t think the Donald Trump`s qualified to be president of the United States, and every time he speaks, that opinion is confirmed.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Opinion

• The sexual orientation of my parents has had zero effect on the content of my character.

  

  Zacharia Wahls
  • Character
  • Parents
  • Zero

• People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.

  

  Will Self
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Dramatic

• Is it exciting to have a codified identity, which then gets a codified set of rights and recognitions and visibility? Are we supposed to take it from there, within the same system? Or are we trying to upset the table before we want a place at it?

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Identity
  • Exciting
  • Codified

• I have not led an ordinary life, nor a life that would suit everyone. I took great risks, but because I did, I also earned great reward. I found the way to show my true face freely, without fear. Because of this, I found true love.

  

  Cameron Dokey
  • Great
  • Reward
  • Earned

• You can skim those stage directions and go right to the dialogue. You can almost read the movie in the same amount of time it will take you to see the movie.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Stage
  • Dialogue
  • Amount

• The fact that Hillary Clinton is pushing for paid family leave and also for affordable childcare will make a huge difference for working women who aren't as lucky as I am to be able to hire a nanny when I work. And who aren't lucky enough to necessarily have their husbands be able to take off work. That will make a huge, huge difference.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Difference
  • Pushing
  • Childcare

• On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day.

  

  Rumi
  • World
  • Day
  • Wind

• As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. (“The Face of the Skies”)

  

  George Sterling
  • Gods
  • Breath
  • Fires

• Nothing can be achieved without knowledge and yet everything can be achieved just through a pure heart.

  

  Haidakhan Babaji
  • Heart
  • Knowledge
  • Pure

• “Just so you know, I'm straight. Totally straight. As an arrow." Her voice held a smile. "So am I”

  

  Carrie Vaughn
  • Voice
  • Smile
  • Straight

• If one is not a living mockery of one's own ideals, one has set one's ideals too low.

  

  Charles Ludlam
  • Ideals
  • Lows
  • Mockery