Bea Arthur Quotes

I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.

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• I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Inspired
  • Designer
  • Vintage

• I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Time
  • Remember
  • True

• My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Always
  • Humanity
  • Human

• It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • May
  • Help
  • Nature

• I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • World
  • Dream
  • Movies

• My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• I was an expert horseman.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • Expert
  • Horseman

• When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Man
  • Kind
  • Enjoy

• My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Me
  • Dad

• I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Pardon
  • Glowing
  • Adjust

• Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Up
  • Men
  • Look

• The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Music
  • History
  • Technology

• I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Hate
  • Like
  • Afraid

• My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Mind
  • Opinion
  • Strength

• One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Work
  • Need
  • Employees

• I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • World
  • Done

• If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • God
  • Religion
  • Insult

• To oppose something is to maintain it.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Something
  • Maintain
  • Oppose

• Within the U.N. itself, I have appointed a record number of women to high-level positions. I did not fill jobs with women just for the sake of it - I looked for the best possible candidate, and I found that if you strip away discrimination, the best possible candidate is often a woman.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • High
  • Best

• For three years now, our brave men and women in uniform have done everything their country has asked of them, yet President Bush still does not have a plan to win the peace in Iraq and bring our troops home.

  

  Marty Meehan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Women
  • Children
  • Family

• Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Human
  • Human Beings
  • Duties

• I love the ultimate escapism of paranormal and fantasy - all of the otherworldly creatures, magic, and possibilities that transport both reader and writer away from reality for a while - it's such delicious fun!

  

  Wendy Higgins
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Reality

• I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Women
  • Happy
  • Me