Charles S. Maier Quotes

No one can master the past; one can only interrogate it.

Charles S. Maier

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• I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Work
  • Down
  • Test

• I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Up
  • Great
  • Home

• Lipgloss is my calling!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Calling

• I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Fact

• I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Myself

• We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Depend

• 'Holy Smoke' is very brave because I don't think it's easy to watch.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Think
  • Easy
  • Brave

• I've always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Said
  • Yellow
  • Duck

• I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Think
  • Political
  • Feminism

• It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Important
  • Very
  • Outside

• Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip?

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Strong
  • Strength

• Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Time
  • Eyes
  • Violence

• It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Art
  • Humanity

• The best employees are those who bring real energy and initiative to the job. I like to know whether you're the kind of person who can set priorities, take initiative, and drive results right from the beginning.

  

  Marillyn Hewson
  • Real
  • Job
  • Energy

• For Marvel, we've never looked at any of our characters in terms of gender, race, or religion. It truly is about, who is the best character for the story? If that character happens to be a woman, fantastic.

  

  Jeph Loeb
  • Character

• My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.

  

  James Patterson
  • Solitude

• You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now.

  

  Chuck D
  • People

• You have to be logical. You know? If I know that in this hotel room they have food every day, and I'm knocking on the door every day to eat, and they open the door, let me see the party, let me see them throwing salami all over, I mean, just throwing food around, but they're telling me there's no food.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Food
  • Party
  • Be Logical

• Stardom is just an uneasy seat on top of a tricky toboggan. Being a star is merely perching at the head of the downgrade. A competent featured player can last a lifetime. A star, a year or two. There's all that agony of finding suitable stories, keeping in character, maintaining illusion.

  

  Fredric March
  • Character
  • Player
  • Star

• I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always write in pain. You have all of your past experiences, feelings, and thoughts that you can turn on when you need them and turn off when you don't.

  

  Kaki King
  • Great
  • Past
  • Pain

• We all belong to an ancient identity. Stories are the rivers that take us there.

  

  Frank Delaney
  • Identity

• Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Men
  • May

• No one can master the past; one can only interrogate it.

  

  Charles S. Maier
  • Past
  • Identity
  • Masters