Wallace Shawn Quotes

I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.

Wallace Shawn

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• Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Done

• Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Interest
  • Duty
  • Holy

• In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Different
  • Game
  • Kind

• I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Happy
  • Myself
  • Colleagues

• The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Book
  • Success

• Many of the wars we see around the world start as domestic conflicts that are fueled by external forces and powers. My view is that we can help peace if we help communities transform from the inside, on their own terms.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • World
  • Help
  • Peace

• People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Simple
  • Tired

• I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Exist
  • Defeat
  • Possibilities

• Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

  

  Ovid
  • Death
  • Bitter
  • Less

• I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Lost
  • Friend
  • Never

• I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • You
  • Fashion
  • London

• Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Books

• History is not hatred.

  

  Malcolm X
  • History
  • Hatred

• By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Nation
  • Rat

• I got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That's how it started.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Age
  • Me
  • Stop

• Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Different
  • War

• Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Money
  • Know
  • Security

• I have some property. We have a few acres, so I like working on it, whether it's cutting stuff down, cleaning stuff up, building steps, or working with concrete, you know, brickwork.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Up
  • Know
  • Cutting

• I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Believe
  • See
  • Causality

• Essence takes great pleasure in creating zeros on anybody that she plays.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Essence
  • Plays
  • Zeros

• I have been able to have a family and to dedicate quality time to my two sets of twins and my husband, as well as to serve on the boards of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and Montefiore Medical Center.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Time
  • Family
  • Quality

• I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • See
  • Plays
  • Musicals