Otto Preminger Quotes

I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.

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• I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Life
  • Technology
  • Myself

• Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Ideas
  • Write
  • More

• To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Earth
  • Like
  • Saying

• Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Country
  • American
  • Political

• Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Me

• I don't do negative things.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
  • Things
  • Negative

• Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence - and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Important
  • Love
  • Person

• You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • You
  • Know
  • Boy

• I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Think
  • Tree
  • Possible

• Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Great
  • Different
  • Guitar

• Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Wealth
  • Environmental
  • Rise

• Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • People
  • Party
  • Doing

• I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Up
  • Day
  • Week

• I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Women
  • Emotion

• I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • People
  • Good
  • Think

• A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • World
  • Person
  • Expect

• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Books
  • Morality
  • Reasons

• Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • City
  • Place
  • Mental

• India has given me everything. It has made me Vijay Mallya.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Me
  • Everything
  • Made

• When I started studying the issue and issues related to fatherlessness, I realized I had all of them. Fear of intimacy, fear of commitment, poor work ethic, just stuff that you don't have when you don't have a man in your life to look you in the eye and say, "You're good," or "Good job."

  

  Donald Miller
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.

  

  Q-Tip
  • People
  • Good
  • Art

• The great thing about cake is it doesn't feel like work. You forget about work. Kids, adults, they all get the same look in their eye when they're decorating cakes... That's the magic right there.

  

  Duff Goldman
  • Work
  • Great
  • Kids

• Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists...

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Time
  • Great

• I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • Time
  • War
  • Acting