Samuel Goldwyn Quotes

Our comedies are not to be laughed at.

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• While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • Wisdom
  • Never
  • Humor

• The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Most

• I am very glad not only to complete the grand slam, but to become Olympic champion alone makes me happy.

  

  Ma Long
  • Happy
  • Alone
  • Champion

• I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Home
  • Kind
  • Door

• Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • World
  • Better

• We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature, we control that, and this system is there as representation of us.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • People
  • Money
  • America

• I do believe that I will see the apocalypse in my lifetime. And when it comes, I'm not repenting for anything I've done.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Believe
  • Done
  • See

• In drama school, I entered a singing competition, which I ended up winning, which was great.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Up
  • Great
  • School

• Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • Life
  • Today
  • Television

• It is very hard for me to switch from clay to grass.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Me
  • Grass
  • Clay

• I would like to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for giving me this wonderful opportunity to serve as Miss Golden Globe 2012.

  

  Rainey Qualley
  • Giving
  • Opportunity
  • Me

• The Arab Spring showed that people are not going to wait for an American president to make good on his big talk about democracy and human rights; they are going to fight for those rights themselves and overthrow pro-American dictators who stand in their way.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • People
  • Good
  • American

• When rain has hung the leaves with tears I want you near to kill my fears, To help me to leave all my blues behind. For standin' in your heart Is where I want to be And long to be, Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind.

  

  Donovan
  • Long
  • Heart
  • May

• By 2030, up to 10 percent of the world's gross domestic product could be linked to space in some way.

  

  Dylan Taylor
  • Up
  • World
  • Space

• My style is not specific to the antebellum South, but it's heavily inspired by the Jim Crow era.

  

  Jidenna Theodore Mobisson
  • Style
  • Inspired

• I know what it's like to finish the laundry and to look in the basket five minutes later and it's full again. I know what it's like to pull all the groceries in, and see the teenagers run through, and all of a sudden, all of the groceries you just bought a few hours ago are gone.

  

  Ann Romney

• It's really an optimistic show. I think most of the people in this country are optimistic, too.

  

  Charles Osgood
  • People
  • Country
  • Optimistic

• We have to have an economy that is strong for everyone, working families who believe they can get ahead and give the children a better quality of life.

  

  Brad Schneider
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Children

• But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Oh dear,"cried Rhonda just then, for Mr. Benedict, awash in strong emotion, has gone to sleep.with a sudden loud snore he toppled forward into the attentive arms of Rhonda and Number Two, who eased him to the floor. "What's wrong with him?" Constance asked. "He has narcolepsy," said Kate. "He steals a lot?" "That's kleptomania," Sticky said. "Mr. Benedict sleeps a lot.

  

  Trenton Lee Stewart
  • Strong
  • Sleep
  • Emotion

• All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and passions of menб that, on the contrary, they direct and incite men's thoughts the more toward those very objects, for we always strive toward what is forbidden and desire the things we are not allowed to have. And men of leisure are never deficient in the ingenuity needed to enable them to outwit laws framed to regulate things which cannot be entirely forbidden... He who tries to determine everything by law will foment crime rather than lessen it.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Laws
  • Injury
  • Laughed

• I try to maintain the perspective that life is meant to be laughed at.

  

  Nicholas Brendon
  • Life
  • Meant
  • Laughed

• Our comedies are not to be laughed at.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
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