Alan Jay Lerner Quotes

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

Alan Jay Lerner

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• When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Internet
  • Old
  • Computers

• Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We've made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.

  

  Adam Kinzinger
  • Future
  • Party
  • Fight

• Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Home
  • Night
  • Alone

• When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Long
  • Society

• I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Pleasure
  • Really
  • Take

• It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Love
  • Joy

• Only 10 percent of the people in the U.S. like dry wines. You shouldn't get down on people just because they like a little sugar.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • People
  • You
  • Down

• I don't think things have changed for me. Yes, I got a big contract, but my focus is still the same.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Focus
  • Things
  • Changed

• When I moved in, I said, 'I don't care how this makes me look or sound: I am converting one of these bedrooms into a shoe closet.' It's become more of a dressing room, but one wall is shoes in their perfect cubbies.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Dressing
  • Shoe
  • Closet

• China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Hope
  • Understanding
  • China

• I think as you get older, you realize there's always going to be critics. Critics are going to win every time because they can change their critique based on the stats and their own personal feelings. It's less about proving people wrong, the critics wrong, and it's more about challenging myself to keep this level up.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Knees
  • Which
  • Affects

• I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Child
  • Very
  • Ambitious

• The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Feeling
  • Kind
  • Being

• I've started spending more of my time studying, trying to improve my IQ by reading and writing. I've missed out on a lot in life. I don't regret this, of course. Nevertheless, I need to make up for lost time.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Dreams

• When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Business
  • Bad
  • Management

• I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Die
  • Wrong
  • Prove

• My family shouldn't have to put up with me. They're good people, solid, happy. Sometimes when I'm with them I think I'm on television.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Family
  • Sometimes
  • Television

• You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind of way. I don't even know how you approach the process of conceiving the characters if in a sense you hated them. It's just absurd.

  

  Joel Coen
  • Weird

• Because of Hubble and other telescopes, we've now discovered that there are probably planets around every star, or virtually every star. There are solar systems around most stars. And the fact that we're here on a planet, Earth, means that it's likely there's lots of other Earths out there.

  

  John M. Grunsfeld
  • Earth
  • Star

• This is a very noisy world, so we have to be very clear what we want them to know about us...

  

  Steve Jobs
  • World

• Lulled into somnolence by five hundred years of print, literary studies have been slow to wake up to the importance of MSA (media-specific analysis). Literary criticism and theory are shot through with unrecognized assumptions specific to print. Only now, as the new medium of electronic textuality vibrantly asserts its presence, are these assumptions clearly coming into view.

  

  N. Katherine Hayles
  • Study
  • Criticism
  • Assumption

• Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

  

  Alan Jay Lerner
  • Criticism