Erik Qualman Quotes

Language is always evolving. It's difficult to read Shakespeare now because language has shifted. Similarly, kids these days can get to the point really quick in about 140 characters or less because of these new tools.

Erik Qualman

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If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.

Robert Moses

ComedyYouMayorGoingIdolElect

It took me too long to realise that if you go to a marriage counsellor to resolve problems, it's in his interest to keep the marriage going.

Michael Douglas

MarriageMeProblemsLongYouGo

You're going to see ups and downs your whole career.

Tony Parker

Ups And DownsYouCareerSeeGoing

I hate hospitals. Even if it's a joyful occasion when a friend gave birth. It's like, 'Oh, look at the beautiful baby.... and all the disease on the walls...'

Rob Huebel

FriendBeautifulHateWallsBaby

Obviously, I haven't really progressed that much at my craft.

Rod Stewart

CraftMuchReallyObviously

I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will not know the pleasures of the novel has been a staple of book reviewing since at least 1960.

Russell Smith

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History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.

Jules Romains

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I'm like a teenage boy - I eat like one and know as much cooking as one. Neither do I bake, and I can always be counted on to bring the wine to a pot luck.

Julia London

CookingLuckWineI CanKnowBoy

We live in a very chaotic world that sometimes we - it just seems like a mess. One of the reasons why we listen to music, and to great classical music in particular, is that everything is in an order and in a place and has a beauty that you see in nature, that you see and that people look for when they look for God.

Joshua Bell

NatureBeautyLiveMusicGodGreat

I may not have seen my girlfriend for two or three months, but then we can spend two or three months together solidly. It's swings and roundabouts.

Douglas Booth

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You don't think anyone who lives an ordinary life has plenty of trouble and torment to write about?

David Shields

LifeThinkYouTroubleWriteWho

I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.

Brian Eno

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