Alan Jay Lerner Quotes

It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Alan Jay Lerner

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• I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Now

• Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Water
  • Cool

• I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • People
  • America
  • Small

• Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Women
  • Health
  • Commitment

• Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Law
  • Constitution
  • Slave

• There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Think
  • Nice
  • Myself

• Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Hero
  • Head
  • Stone

• Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Company
  • Gentleman
  • Pink

• The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Decisions
  • Reverse

• I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • Up
  • World
  • Creative

• Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Church
  • Gay
  • Cruel

• In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Trying
  • Soul
  • Pain

• When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Thought

• Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Music
  • Important
  • Day

• You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Happy
  • Future
  • Husband

• Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Women

• I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Up
  • Great
  • School

• I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.

  

  Vanessa Minnillo
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Questions

• When I'm at home, I just run all the time, you know; I get up, and I go pretty much four days a week outdoors. I go in the canyons around L.A., Malibu - just around L.A. there's a lot of different spots.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• My parents owned a hair salon, so I learned a few tricks there. I can cut people's hair - if they let me.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • People
  • Parents
  • Hair

• Latinos come from different countries, and they tend to segregate with only their country instead of embracing all the other countries, because in reality, all the Latinos are going through the same experiences of discrimination and racism.

  

  Andrea Navedo
  • Different
  • Country
  • Reality

• What sometimes goes on in all sorts of Christian institutions is not formation of people in the character of Christ; it's teaching of outward conformity. You don't get in trouble for not having the character of Christ, but you do if you don't obey the laws.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • People
  • Character
  • Christian

• Living on silence,Living by the book.You get it to a scienceOf living on one good look.So put out all the firesAnd blow away the smoke.I'm getting pretty tiredOf living on hope.

  

  Aimee Mann
  • Good
  • Book
  • Hope

• It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

  

  Alan Jay Lerner
  • Character
  • Pretty