Leo Ornstein Quotes

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

Leo Ornstein

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• I made my first movie when I was five.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Movie
  • First
  • Made

• Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Want
  • You
  • Old

• When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Life
  • Game
  • Words

• The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Job
  • High
  • Health

• Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

  

  Ed Balls
  • War
  • Wrong
  • Iraq

• Maybe I didn't have the childhood people think you should have, but I still went through the ages; I was still a child.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • People
  • Childhood
  • Child

• On some level, you could say you wouldn't have 'In Style Magazine' at all had Anna Wintour not decided to put celebrities on the cover of 'Vogue' from her earliest years as Editor in Chief.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Style
  • Level
  • Chief

• Vaults and caskets are not the law; they are the policy of individual cemeteries. Vaults prevent the settling of the dirt around the body, thus making landscaping more uniform and cost effective. As an added bonus, vaults can be customized and sold at a markup. Faux marble? Bronze? Take your pick, family.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Family
  • Law
  • Body

• In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • You
  • Miss
  • Grades

• I've always been really cautious about guys who have a Winnie Cooper fantasy, and I'm so glad about that. I mean, I can count on one hand the guys I've been with. It was really challenging, but I never gave it up too soon, if you know what I mean.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Up
  • Know
  • Hand

• I've never stopped loving cartoons. I loved cartoons as a kid. I can still look at them and enjoy them.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Enjoy
  • Look
  • Loved

• I was always very silly and never took myself seriously. When my father had the camera out, I'd be up close and annoying. My father would keep saying, 'Move back! Move back!'

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Father
  • Myself

• If I'm thrifting, and I find this great dress, but it won't fit me, and I won't grow into it because I'm impossibly tiny, I don't want to let it sit there. I'll buy it and send it to a friend.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Great
  • Me
  • Friend

• If I were to talk to Lindsay Lohan, I'd encourage her to get the hell out of acting and into something soothing. Take up botany or something.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Up
  • Acting
  • Hell

• Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Health
  • Responsibility
  • Accountability

• It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it.

  

  Mae West
  • Way
  • Say

• We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Earth
  • Perfect
  • Universe

• I'm lucky to still have my mother who is at a very advanced age, which is pretty incredible.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Mother
  • Lucky
  • Advanced Age

• "But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a mother's love, or the comfort of a home; that ill-usage and blows, or the want of bread, may have driven him to herd with men who have forced him to guilt. Aunt, dear aunt, for mercy's sake, think of this, before you let them drag this sick child to a prison, which in any case must be the grave of all his chances of amendment."

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Think
  • Child
  • Prison

• If there's a clear genocide somewhere, don't we really want to positively impact that kind of a situation? Isn't that what we're all about? Isn't that what we've always been about?

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Want
  • Kind
  • Impact

• Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

  

  Leo Ornstein