Charlie Chaplin Quotes

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

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• 'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Word
  • Dangerous
  • Mathematics

• The ox suffers, the cart complains.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Suffers
  • Complains
  • Cart

• Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Sometimes

• Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Myself

• If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Child

• Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Live
  • Free
  • Me

• I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Want
  • Song
  • Find

• I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Think
  • Imagination
  • Paint

• I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • God
  • Trying

• Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Illusions
  • Drop
  • Luggage

• Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Money
  • Education
  • College

• I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Help
  • Think
  • Just

• Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Believe
  • Choices
  • Decisions

• Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Childhood
  • Memories
  • Early

• If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Best

• World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in. I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death. I did fiddle with lots of maps for 'Glass Sword,' as the second installment sees Mare, Cal and company traveling throughout their country, and that's always fun for me.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • World
  • Country
  • Fun

• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Like
  • Take
  • Sensitive

• I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Culinary
  • Tastes
  • Recipe

• I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Work
  • Country
  • Family

• I leave Bud Fox in the canyons of Wall Street, just another ant, one of millions of ants…. We’re all absorbed in this system of capitalism…. You join the collective unconscious.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Wall

• In 1939, Germany established gun control. From 1939 to 1945, six million Jews and seven million others unable to defend themselves were exterminated.

  

  Joe Wurzelbacher
  • Control
  • Gun

• As for 'cultural genocide', if there's any going on these days, it's the genocide of the Britannic inheritance - in North America, in the Antipodes, in Blair's Britain.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • America

• It took me a year just to edit 'Shotgun Stories.' Actually, it took me two years to edit 'Shotgun Stories.'

  

  Jeff Nichols

• Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

  

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