Leo Rosten Quotes

Conservative: One who admires radicals a century after they're dead.

Leo Rosten

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• I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Free

• When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Great
  • Death
  • Survival

• North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Poverty
  • Slavery
  • Rights

• Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Important
  • Character

• Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Family
  • School
  • Job

• People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • People
  • Famous
  • Act

• Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Great
  • Society
  • Party

• I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Done

• About 90 percent of the pieces in my home are vintage, and I'm a ruthless editor. I only live with things that I love. There is not one thing in my home that doesn't have meaning to me.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Live
  • Love
  • Home

• It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • World
  • Trying
  • Eye

• Usually in a Smosh sketch, we get 60 shots, 12 hours to shoot - we're just going 'bam, bam, bam.'

  

  Ian Hecox
  • Hours
  • Shots
  • Sketch

• Almost every culture has its own variation on chicken soup, and rightly so - it's one of the most gratifying dishes on the face of the Earth.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Earth
  • Culture
  • Soup

• If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it's something that a lot of musicians juggle with. I've always found it so fascinating.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Life
  • Real
  • Artist

• A lot of the characters I play on Japanese shows are actually acted in Japan by women. I don't know what that says about me.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Women
  • Know
  • Play

• The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Up
  • Children

• Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new...program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.

  

  Art Buchwald
  • Time
  • Wonder

• Tolle moras: semper nocuit differre paratis.

  

  Lucan

• I don't think I've ever done a real mini-series, but I love doing film first and foremost.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • Real
  • Done

• Songwriting was very tough for me... I would go in and sit and hope for inspiration to come, and it was rarely forthcoming.

  

  Leon Russell
  • Hope
  • Inspiration
  • Songwriting

• While the nerds were being trained to get the right answers, the popular kids were being trained to please.

  

  Paul Graham
  • Popular
  • Answers
  • Please

• It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or even energy.

  

  Anatol Rapoport
  • Energy
  • Information
  • Vessel

• Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up.

  

  Katie Gill
  • Sad
  • Tears
  • Sadness

• Please, please, please, my dear competition. We can beat each other and fight each other as much as we want and argue, but do not predict how a system really works when you really don't know and don't want to know. Either be better informed, or don't do it.

  

  Hasso Plattner
  • Competition
  • Fight
  • System

• Conservative: One who admires radicals a century after they're dead.

  

  Leo Rosten