Lee Grant Quotes

I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

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• You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.

  

  G-Eazy
  • You
  • Cool
  • Ability

• The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Up
  • American
  • Game

• I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Writing
  • Together

• Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it'll do some good.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Peace

• By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Excellence
  • Contemplation

• There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Happiness
  • Sorrow
  • Prove

• People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Life
  • Day

• I would like to have a rematch against Fabricio Werdum.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Like
  • Would
  • Against

• I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Know
  • Like
  • Jump

• There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but it is not good money. It is not the authentic reality that called itself Christianity in the beginning.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • World
  • Good
  • Money

• The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • America
  • Want
  • Problems

• The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take place between all parts of society: politicians, industrialists, artists, citizens, etc. That tradition, I think, still exists, but it's much, much more diluted.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Society
  • Tradition

• A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.

  

  T. Berry Brazelton
  • Children
  • Relationship
  • Miracle

• I don't see any reason to discriminate against homosexuals.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Reason
  • See
  • Against

• We come from Second City where you're taught if you make your fellow stage partner look good, that makes you look good.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Good
  • City
  • Partner

• Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Confidence
  • Angry
  • Attacks

• Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Time
  • World
  • Day

• Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Great
  • Hand
  • Poetry

• Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It... keeps us honest.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o

• After leaving Evanescence, I dealt with a lot of sh--, then being diagnosed as bipolar, and my heavy drug use and rehab ... this record went through all that with me, so making it was a complete catharsis, ... I'm focusing on me and getting the unhealthy things out of my life, which isn't always an easy thing to do, but that's been my main focus right now. I'm still on a journey, you know, but I'm a lot happier now. I can sleep easier.

  

  Ben Moody Evanescence
  • Sleep
  • Journey
  • My Life

• One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.

  

  Lesley Garrett
  • Music
  • Attention

• I'm not a great collaborator, to tell the truth.

  

  George Michael
  • Truth
  • Collaborator

• If it were up to me, every job would be somewhere in Canada.

  

  Jay Baruchel
  • Up
  • Job

• I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

  

  Lee Grant