Erich Schiffmann Quotes

We have never stayed home long enough to experience the truth about ourselves.

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• Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • Live
  • Community
  • Communication

• Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

  

  O. Henry
  • Life
  • Smiles
  • Sniffles

• Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Music
  • Power

• I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • People
  • Love
  • Suffer

• I am not keen just for the position; I'm keen to help and to serve. If I can really avoid any bad things on my country, I will not hesitate one second.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Country
  • Help
  • Position

• I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

  

  J. Cole
  • Want
  • Man
  • Science

• Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Men
  • Women
  • Soul

• I'm very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums - more like historical collections or house museums.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Art
  • House
  • Idea

• I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Laughter

• The highlight of my career? The Olympics, of course.

  

  Tara Lipinski
  • Career
  • Course
  • Olympics

• One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Family
  • American
  • Gay

• I'm always honest.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Always
  • Honest

• The larger the deductible you choose, the less insurance you are buying. Insurers want to sell insurance.

  

  Andrew Tobias
  • Insurance

• I never set out to be a cult cool artist. I always made music that I thought was pop.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Music
  • Cool

• Shakespeare is definitely my first love.

  

  Andre Holland

• That may be a factor because we are the older show; we have been on the air for a while. Is it our day? Is it time to hang it up? But it seems that the show still continues, and we still enjoy being here. And that's a very important element.

  

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar
  • Up
  • Time
  • Important

• I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audition for one play in high school - 'Auntie Mame.' I got a small part as the fiancee who comes on in the end. I got laughs. I wasn't shy at all doing the part. I can do anything on stage and write it off as a character.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Up
  • School
  • Character

• You can have a phenomenal technology with bad people; you're not gonna have much success. You can have mediocre technology with great people; they'll figure out a way to make a buck.

  

  Kenneth Langone
  • People
  • Great
  • Bad

• History is a way of interpreting, rather than, say, knowing, the past. It is usually a set of disputes between those who have access to the same sources. It depends on ideology as much as voting in an election does.

  

  Colm Toibin
  • History
  • Past

• Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Home
  • Strong
  • Better

• People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.

  

  Tara Leigh Patrick
  • People
  • Art
  • Home

• We have never stayed home long enough to experience the truth about ourselves.

  

  Erich Schiffmann
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