Richard Corliss Quotes

You may debate whether the Disney heroines fit the feminist standard, but they don't live in a democracy. Remember, they're princesses.

Richard Corliss

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 6, 1944 - April 23, 2015

Topics

LiveDemocracyRememberYouDebate

A useless life is an early death.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

LifeDeathEarlyUseless

I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.

John Denver

GoodGreatTryingNeverWriteOut

You have to stay true to yourself and where you're coming from, and sometimes people see you in a different light, but you have to take it in and try to be positive about anything.

McKayla Maroney

PositiveLightYourselfPeopleYou

A number of Americans were used, most often unwillingly, by North Korea to arm spies with English-speaking skills so they could target American interests in South Korea and beyond.

Robert Jenkins

AmericanTargetSkillsBeyondUsed

I think there's a lot of, unfortunately, unfunny ventriloquists out there, so they've got a bad rap. It came after Edgar Bergen because everybody had a little cheeky boy dummy like Charlie McCarthy, and everybody decided to become a ventriloquist because Bergen had popularized it. He brought it back from the doldrums of vaudeville.

Jeff Dunham

ThinkBadBackBoyBecomeOut

At Real Madrid, I did heading drills with Cristiano Ronaldo. You see him go up for headers, that spring and power - he is a real beast. At Juventus, I saw Fernando Llorente, how he finds space and directs his headers.

Alvaro Morata

PowerSpaceSpringYouBeastGo

I don't flip. I don't even dive into a pool - straight cannonball for me. No, thanks.

Rob Lowe

MePoolDiveThanksEvenStraight

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Mignon McLaughlin

LiveSocietyDeadTroublemakers

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?

Milton Friedman

PeopleMeThinkAmericanPolitical

I really enjoy recording right after a tour. We're tired, but the songs are really lived in by then.

Jason Molina

TiredEnjoyRightLivedRecording

We are dependent not so much on Earth, the third planet orbiting the sun, as on Gaea, the integrated system that includes, sustains and is shaped by life.

Donella Meadows

LifeSunEarthSystemPlanetMuch

I'm still writing from personal experiences, which is what people connected with in the first place.

Clairo

PeopleWritingPlacePersonalFirst

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