Len Wein Quotes

I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.

Len Wein

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• You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Life
  • Think
  • Yourself

• Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • War
  • Civil War
  • Universities

• I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • People
  • Pain
  • Myself

• To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Fun
  • Gay
  • Pride

• France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Country
  • Latin
  • France

• The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Door
  • Difference
  • Republican

• Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.

  

  Xenophon
  • Men
  • Live
  • War

• I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.

  

  Nathan Gamble
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.

  

  La India
  • Know
  • Human
  • I Can

• For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Time
  • Weird
  • Stupid

• But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Fact
  • Brothers
  • Clown

• I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Body

• If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • America
  • Doing
  • Understand

• The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Men
  • Live
  • Truth

• I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Acting
  • Historian
  • Confusing

• I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Old
  • Some
  • Videos

• For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Everything
  • Lose

• I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Work
  • Way
  • I Can

• This year I really feel like I've been taking steps in the right direction. Things are finally coming back together and I'm starting to feel more like I did in 2001 and 2002.

  

  Chris Smith
  • Together
  • Direction
  • Steps

• If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.

  

  Billy Eckstine
  • Music
  • College
  • Study

• For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Reason

• You really get a feeling, when you're reading scripts, pretty quickly. Within 20 or 25 pages, you can get a sense of the part. I always think about whether I'm right for it and whether I can do it. If I don't think I'm right for it, it should go to somebody else.

  

  Molly Shannon
  • Thinking
  • Reading
  • Feelings

• Try to distill the character of your subject. Understand how he moves, thinks, acts. It's difficult to put into words. Consider each drawing as a problem that did not exist before, and then try to solve that problem to the best of your ability. That i what caricature is all about

  

  Al Hirschfeld
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Character

• I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.

  

  Len Wein
  • Trying
  • Past
  • I Think