Simon Schama Quotes

Jewish comedy doesn't come out of nothing. Jewish music doesn't come out of nothing... I don't want to be part of a story where Jews are just victims or bullies - and I'm not saying that's what the Israelis are.

Simon Schama

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If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can spray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn because it's producing a gene that makes it tolerant of the herbicide.

Jeremy Rifkin

YouWeedsCornBecauseYourMeans

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

Jello Biafra

MoneyFootballPeopleHomelessGolf

I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings.

Jenova Chen

ThoughtBuildingsBornAlwaysYears

The thing that stand-up does for you is that it toughens you up a bit as far as the business goes. It's hard. If a joke doesn't get a laugh, that's instant rejection. And that's mostly what this business is most of the time: a lot of rejection.

Melissa Rauch

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Heaven can never countenance the barbarous and unmanly practice of the Britons in America, which savages would blush at, and which, if not discontinued, will soon be retaliated on Britain by a justly enraged people.

John Paul Jones

PracticePeopleAmericaHeavenNever

There are too many people coming to parks doing the wrong things. They treat the parks like popcorn playgrounds. They don't understand what the national parks mean.

Michael Frome

PeopleTreatDoingWrongUnderstand

The Tonys are also kind of like a homegrown party. You know everybody.

Amy Ryan

YouPartyKnowKindLikeEverybody

I know if I stay true to myself and stick to my guns, I will never fail myself.

Tomi Lahren

MyselfKnowStay TrueTrueNever

Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.

Robert Altman

HumorPeopleChanceValuesDown

To this day, I have the most fond memories of some of my old toys.

Michael Keaton

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Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being.

Michael Korda

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I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special.

Mo Rocca

MyselfMeSelfFeelImportantNow

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