Edwin Newman Quotes

Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.

Edwin Newman

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• A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Plan
  • Push

• I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Learning
  • Enjoy
  • Process

• My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.

  

  Jackie Jackson The Jacksons
  • People
  • Husband
  • Difference

• Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • World
  • Trying
  • Perfect

• Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Progress
  • Chinese

• I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Wife
  • Child
  • Lucky

• Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Why
  • Girl
  • Boy

• Problem-solving, inventing, hacking and coding is more of an adrenaline rush of endorphins rather than a feeling.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Feeling
  • More
  • Hacking

• While President Obama may not have ordered any surveillance of Trump or his advisors, the real question is whether he or Attorney General Loretta Lynch were aware of or approved of any surveillance of Trump and his staff during the campaign.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Real
  • May
  • Question

• People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.

  

  Kage Baker
  • People
  • Business
  • History

• If I'm going to portray one of my idols and someone I feel... so strongly about, it has to be done right, and it has to be done 120 percent.

  

  Zendaya
  • Done
  • Feel
  • Idols

• I only give expression to the instincts from my soul.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • Soul
  • Expression
  • Instincts

• You say I look goofy? OK, great. You say it's comedy? Great. Whatever anyone thought, I didn't care. Could be goony, could be sexy, could be stupid, could be cool. I didn't know, but as long as it was something, you know?

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Great
  • Long
  • Comedy

• Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Money
  • War
  • Society

• Nobody sees the same movie. I'm sure there are people who saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and thought 'Finally a gay movie about men who really care about each other. Thank God!' That's not what I saw necessarily - but I don't think any two people see the same movie.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • People
  • God
  • Men

• All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Women
  • Country
  • Age

• Puerto Rican culture is very different from Mexican culture. Part of the Mexican psychology is the idea of being an immigrant or being illegal or being confused with that. That doesn't happen with Puerto Ricans, because you're a commonwealth.

  

  Lela Loren
  • Different
  • Culture
  • Psychology

• If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Kissing
  • Holy
  • Gentle

• Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Great
  • Lord
  • Forgive

• I always wanted to be known as the Norman Rockwell of television, and 'Happy Days' represented the part of me that wanted to make mainstream America laugh.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • America
  • Happy
  • Television

• Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease, death and the sweat of labor.

  

  Claude Vorilhon
  • God
  • Age
  • Death

• When it comes to English stand-up comedy, Indians have only seen the best - Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby and the like. So, when someone claims to be an English stand-up comedian in India, he'd better be very good if he's going to make a life of it.

  

  Vir Das
  • English
  • Claims
  • Stand-up comedy

• Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.

  

  Edwin Newman
  • America
  • Death
  • English