Conrad Veidt Quotes

I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul.

Conrad Veidt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: January 22, 1893 - April 3, 1943

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We want PC makers to have better audio because these things are used as home stereos by a lot of people, and that makes it suck.

Jimmy Iovine

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I grew up in the suburbs, so I figured 'Why not try downtown living?' And, honestly, I love it. I've been very pleasantly surprised at how much downtown Indianapolis has to offer.

Andrew Luck

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You may depend upon it that they are as good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.

Robert Owen

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Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.

John Podhoretz

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Skunk works were emblematic of corporate structures that focused on execution and devalued innovation.

Steve Blank

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I liked football a lot, too, but basketball clearly is my first love.

Steve Ballmer

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My stand-up has always been very character-based. I'm not really the kind of person that's like, 'Hey, here's what's on my mind! Tip your waitress!' I would create the jokes based on the character I was playing. It was always a performance-based thing for me.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

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My father had a Super 8 camera when I was a kid and sometimes he would use it. I did some animation with it. I did a lot of flipbooks.

Michel Gondry

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Staying grounded, eating healthy, doing yoga, staying out of the sun to protect my skin - I think that the daily decisions we make to protect our bodies are the best ways we can care for them.

Christen Press

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I believe there's a secret chemical that's turned loose when you have kids that says you've got to survive, you've got to be strong. That keeps you on your toes, besides all kinds of other things, when you have three little ones running around.

Clyde Edgerton

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I'm from a big family - I'm the youngest of seven - and my wife is one of four. So we always wanted a lot of kids. It's what we're used to, and for us it's what life is all about.

Chris O'Donnell

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Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

Brian Lumley

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