George Axelrod Quotes

Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room.

George Axelrod

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• I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • Struggle
  • Chaos

• I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Kind
  • Thought
  • Competition

• Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Eighth

• Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Writing
  • Choice
  • Tradition

• With 'Game of Thrones,' there are no real limitations.

  

  Nathalie Emmanuel
  • Real
  • Game
  • Limitations

• I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Fashion
  • Always
  • Same

• All our symbols have the same purpose; words are merely the symbols we use most commonly. The function of words in human thought is to stand for things which are not present to the senses, and allow the mind to manipulate them-things, concepts, ideas, everything that does not have a physical reality in front of us now.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Words

• However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • May
  • Society
  • Pride

• There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Live
  • Universe

• I'd love to do Pat Benatar. Probably either 'Hit Me with Your Best Shot' or 'We Belong'.

  

  Lauren Cohan

• People say a lot of things about LeBron, but he just keeps having a good mentality and grinding. That's what I try to do, proving people wrong by what I do on the court.

  

  Ben Simmons
  • People
  • Good

• When I said that I make out with dudes, there was a slight sense of sexual rebellion in that. And I probably even made it a bigger deal than it was.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy

• We want the big stories, of course, of the great men, but there's as much drama and interest and lessons to be learned in actions that people like us take on a daily basis.

  

  Margot Lee Shetterly
  • People
  • Great
  • Men

• I'm always a fan of a good horror film.

  

  Andre Braugher
  • Good

• When I first came to New York, I was surprised by all these out teenagers who were openly on the street being who they were. That intrigued me because I was 27 and still struggling with being myself.

  

  Dee Rees

• I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs.

  

  Mary Wesley
  • Enemy

• As far as characters that are written as Muslims, we're only seeing one dimension. It's either the good Muslim who is helping the FBI, or the taxi driver-terrorist bundled in one.

  

  Maysoon Zayid
  • Good

• I'm not like other writers. I'm not hung up on using my own songs. In fact, my sister Bunny always tells me I sing other people's songs better than my own. She says I loosen up and give the songs a different feel.

  

  El DeBarge DeBarge
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Being inducted seems to mean a lot to a lot of people, and by proxy that has sort of rubbed off on me. But it's not necessarily a mandate from the masses, so I don't know. We'll see.

  

  Chris Stein Blondie
  • People
  • Mandate
  • Proxy

• The most frustrating thing to me is when I tell people I work on 'Friday Night Lights,' they'll say, 'Oh, I hear that's a really good show.' They never watched it.

  

  Jason Katims
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• To play for Chelsea is a blessing.

  

  Alexandre Pato

• We're going through a period of retrenchment as the dynamics of the playing field are changing.

  

  Kenneth C. Griffin
  • Period

• Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room.

  

  George Axelrod
  • Giving
  • Gentleman
  • Rooms