Ned Rorem Quotes

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

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• Sharing is the essence of social media.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Media
  • Social Media
  • Sharing

• I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Time
  • Same
  • Ego

• Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Dark
  • Losing

• I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that. It's a privilege.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Responsibility
  • Model
  • Decisions

• What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • People
  • Style
  • Practice

• I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Life
  • Tragic
  • Beginner

• The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Wrong
  • Greatest
  • Temptation

• If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Voting

• I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Time
  • World
  • Winning

• As you get older, you get more accepting - although, if you asked me whose body I would want, I would say Jess Ennis's at the Olympics.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Want
  • Me
  • Body

• When I was younger, I used to love Tim Burton's 'Batman.' I was, like, 15, and even then, I was aware, 'This is really the Joker's film.' It's like, the Joker just takes over, and Batman, you really don't learn too much about him.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Love
  • Learn
  • Batman

• Worse than thieves, murderers, or cannibals, those who offer compromise slow you and sap your vitality while pretending to be your friends. They are not your friends. Compromisers are the enemies of all humanity, the enemies of life itself. Compromisers are the enemies of everything important, sacred, and true.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Life
  • Important
  • Friends

• In the past we believed both sexes were born with original sin. Today, we have come to unconsciously believe in the original sin of boys, but the original innocence of girls. – page 103.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Believe
  • Today
  • Past

• No one has a resume that they are 100% comfortable with, nor does anyone have a life that they are 100% comfortable with.

  

  Jay Baruchel
  • Life

• Libraries are not just places where people go read a book, but places where an immigrant goes to take English lessons and where folks out of a job search for community.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • People
  • Job
  • Book

• I respect Conor McGregor a lot because this man changed everything in the UFC.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Respect

• I think that you just understand, as any creative person, that there's a beast that you have to beat, and it never goes away. I've resigned myself to that, and it's kind of what keeps you going. Writing is the worst and the best.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Writing

• When you're on tour with the band, it's a different mentality. You don't sightsee because you're making sure you can do the show. But in musicals, I don't have to sing or play: I just have to use my brain, and the rest of the time, I'm free.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Time
  • Different
  • Free

• I found myself in Zurich Airport. I'd done a TV show, oddly enough, with Mavis Staples. That's the way they do it in Switzerland. And I'd had a bit of a late night with members of her band. And I was - my flight was delayed. And I was sitting in the airport, and I just came up with the idea. And by the time, we landed at Heathrow, I'd pretty much sort of got it.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Night
  • Enough
  • Flight

• Our language for describing emotions is very crude... that's what music is for, I guess.

  

  Ben Goertzel
  • Music
  • Language
  • Emotions

• I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life.

  

  Josh Young
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Theater

• I think the tricky balance, the most important thing more than the horror is to have a compelling story, compelling drama, a show about great characters that you care about and you want to come back every week to see what they're up to.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

  

  Ned Rorem