William Wendt Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
-
I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.
-
The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
-
I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
-
I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.
-
We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
-
I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.
-
I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.
-
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
-
We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
-
I think you can tell when someone is being dishonest as an actor.
-
What's happened to broadcasting is that broadcasting really used to be... it used to have a very clear public service quotient. And it's more or less now. And it's been lost.
-
It gets harder and harder to make sure your public understands you're a sensitive human being, but I am sensitive. I don't like to be hurt.
-
It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.
-
I've been left at the altar now a couple of times.
-
I think, like a lot of people on this issue, I have really changed my thinking here to, ‘I don’t ever want to stand in front of anybody’s happiness.’ That’s not my job, okay? If that word – ‘marriage’ – is really, really that important to you, I can go with it.
-
I appeal to the philosophers of all countries to unite and never again mention Heidegger or talk to another philosopher who defends Heidegger. This man was a devil. I mean, he behaved like a devil to his beloved teacher, and he has a devilish influence on Germany. … One has to read Heidegger in the original to see what a swindler he was.
-
Information is always to be treasured, Raul. It is behind only love and honesty in a person’s attempt to understand the universe.
-
Creating fatherhood means creating a major psychological shift. Both sexes find it's difficult to fully share the psychological responsibility for the other sex's traditional role - especially when the other sex is around. – page 90.
-
For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.
-
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
-
Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.
-
Like Ronnie said, we're alone. All we have is family, for what it's worth.
-
No one should have to grieve alone.
