Art Buchwald Quotes

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.

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• I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • World
  • Job
  • Perfect

• I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.

  

  Fanny Howe
  • Street
  • Over
  • Bar

• Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Up
  • Different
  • Like

• Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Writing
  • You
  • Respond

• I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.

  

  Sally Field
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Dialogue

• I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • English
  • Language
  • Write

• I feel like Nashville has watched me grow up in front of them, which is cool, but it kind of sucks at the same time because you get pigeonholed, like, 'Oh, she's the girl with the long hair that wears fairy dresses.' That was me at one point because I was new and I was young. But we all grow up.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Hair

• When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.

  

  Malcolm X
  • American
  • America
  • Problem

• Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Free
  • Know
  • Slavery

• I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Time
  • Long
  • Think

• There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during the time in which there was a lot of competition to get into space first, and to know that there were African-American women who were integral in that success is pretty phenomenal.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Women
  • Real

• I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Sports
  • Red
  • Professional

• Univision's close-to-50-year relationship with Hispanics makes us one of the leading media brands in this country and the gateway to connect with this consumer.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Country
  • Relationship
  • Media

• It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Long
  • Myself
  • Thought

• If you're being attacked by something on the outside, which I feel a lot being in show business, you just have to dial it back and breathe and know that you are protected.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Business
  • Know
  • Feel

• People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Effort
  • Language

• I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Luck
  • Russia
  • Washing

• Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Human
  • Human Beings
  • Angels

• That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Character
  • Relationship
  • Balance

• I like Drake's stuff.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Like
  • Stuff
  • Drake

• A lot of time, people enter the most depressing situations, and they are the funniest people on Earth, because they have to be. It's a coping mechanism.

  

  Daniel Kaluuya
  • People
  • Time
  • Earth

• I'd definitely like to study other things and keep on learning all the time, but I wouldn't want to do anything else. Ultimately, acting is my craft. I've always been interested in psychology and nutrition, but I don't know that I'd go and make that my profession.

  

  Cindy Busby
  • Time
  • Learning
  • Study

• 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