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Mortimer Adler Quotes

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: american
Birth: December 28, 1902 - June 28, 2001

Topics

Men Value Three Pleasure Things

Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen. Start building up your larder! We don't even use that term any more.

Food Building Kitchen Start You Up

I loved the MC5 and the Stooges, but also, the British Invasion - the Kinks and the Yardbirds - and then Led Zeppelin, of course. Alice Cooper was one of my favorite bands.

Loved British Led Zeppelin Favorite

I don't think fashion has to change every five minutes. I'd like these to be clothes you can wear for a long time - ten, 20 years; pass on to your daughter. Why buy vintage when you can open your own closet!

Change Daughter Time Fashion Vintage

I like my ladies lady-ish, feminine so to speak. I love jeans and hoodies, but the idea of being an ultimate tomboy does slightly confuse me.

Love Me Speak Jeans Tomboy Being

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

Mary Ritter Beard

Change Travel Ideas Deep Seeing

Making a movie is so hard, you'd better make movies about something you really know about. And even more, it's really good to make movies about things you need to figure out for yourself, so you're driven the whole way through. It's going to make things more crucial for you.

Good Yourself Better You Know Way

We're never gonna get rid of crazy people. They've been around for thousands of years - they'll continue to be around; they'll continue to do horrible things.

People Crazy Never Crazy People Get

I think it's always a good time to be in a political film in America because there's so much material for comedy.

Good Time Think Political Comedy

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.

War Waiting Victory Dangerous Desire

I don't like the water. I'm a land guy.

Water Land Guy Like

When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.

Art School Painting Think Better

I think it's dangerous to get into ideas of planning careers.

Ideas Planning Think Dangerous Get

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