Cynthia Lord Quotes

Just because other people think something, that doesn't make it true. Maybe there's some truth in that, but it's unsatisfying, bitter-tasting truth.

Cynthia Lord

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• 'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Heart
  • Place
  • Special

• I love working the legislative process.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Working
  • Process
  • Legislative

• Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Good
  • Black

• Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Government
  • Status Quo

• I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Friends
  • American
  • Government

• What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Better
  • Fat
  • Cats

• When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Need
  • Trouble
  • Bank

• All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.

  

  Walter Payton
  • People
  • Want
  • Treat

• With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • People
  • Girl
  • Hurt

• I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Night
  • Best
  • Silence

• The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Religion
  • Lies
  • Human

• I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Business
  • America
  • Never

• My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.

  

  B. B. King
  • Work
  • She
  • Government

• In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Great
  • May
  • Earth

• I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Live
  • Hope
  • More

• If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Change
  • Dying
  • Try

• I just believe what I believe.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Just

• The waves of religion based on terrorism in the 1990s are based on the tormented response of a mutilated Muslim society whose progressive forces have been savagely emasculated. Why on earth is the Arab world so hostile to women? Why can it not see women as a force for development?

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • World
  • Women
  • Why

• What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

  

  David Hume
  • Brain

• I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks.

  

  Joe Scarborough
  • Time
  • Flying

• When I create a character, I do it with the directors, and I take their notes and try to have my notes meet in a common ground. I don't create characters myself, and I don't really think that's my job. I'm not a prep person at all - plus, I'm just a lazy procrastinator.

  

  Keir Gilchrist
  • Character
  • Job
  • Lazy

• I suppose it's true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. 'M.A.S.H.' comes to mind. So does 'The Iliad.'

  

  Kevin Bleyer
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Art

• We are trying to persuade people that no human has yet grasped 1% of what can be known about spiritual realities. So we are encouraging people to start using the same methods of science that have been so productive in other areas, in order to discover spiritual realities.

  

  John Templeton
  • People
  • Trying
  • Science

• Just because other people think something, that doesn't make it true. Maybe there's some truth in that, but it's unsatisfying, bitter-tasting truth.

  

  Cynthia Lord
  • People
  • True
  • Think