Groucho Marx Quotes

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Groucho Marx

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: comedian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 2, 1890 - August 19, 1977

Topics

PovertyNothingWayUpExtreme

I was not a very good mother. I was always running out to do a movie or something. If I had to do it over, I would either have a career or children. I wouldn't do both unless I could work in my home. I spent 20 years feeling guilty, which is not a very nice emotion.

Joanne Woodward

WorkGoodMotherHomeChildrenNice

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

Maya Angelou

MeDifferencesHumanHuman Beings

Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my age and build could be suffering from bulimia nervosa, but that's what the consultant said I had.

John Prescott

AgeMomentManSufferingThinking

I'm pretty gritty.

Amy Hood

PrettyGritty

So you might say, 'Why do you end up making theatre in a world in which there is already too much of that? Creating layer upon layer of artifice?' Perhaps the function is to pierce through that cloud and show reality - so the function of art is to make things - to show: 'Hang on, this is real.'

Simon McBurney

ArtTheatreWorldRealityEndYou

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.

Roland Joffe

FamilyFoodDownSittingMeal

Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side's claims.

Rush Limbaugh

FreeWeaknessSpeechReactAbility

I never went shopping. That wasn't my thing. I grew up horseback riding. That was my passion. I didn't start shopping until about 16 or 17, when I could drive myself to stores and explore on my own.

Mary-Kate Olsen

PassionMyselfShoppingDriveStart

The desire to abdicate, to give up - for me, that's primal.

Michelle Dean

MeDesireUpGivePrimalAbdicate

The whole 'grunge-girl' comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.

Mitski

MusicAppreciateOutWholePick

You know the way Washington works. Once you start floating ideas, they are immediately attacked by all the different interest groups before the ideas can be brought to fruition.

Judd Gregg

IdeasStartYouKnowWashingtonWay

I've always been a writer who does simplistic, simple melodies. But I think it works.

Corin Tucker

SimpleThinkAlwaysBeenWhoWriter

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