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Charles Grodin Quotes

I don't want to have anything to do with the government. And yet if we don't have any regulations, there goes civilization, there goes security, and there goes protecting you against what people are going to sell you.

Charles Grodin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: April 21, 1935

Topics

Government People You Security Want

A film maker's energy and creativity don't have to end when he turns over his film.

Michael Cimino

Creativity Energy End Over Film He

A people fatigued by bad presidential judgment aren't inclined to reward him or his party.

Monica Crowley

People Reward Bad Party Judgment

Life is tricky - you never know what's going to happen.

Dito Montiel

Life You Know Never Happen Going

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

Constantin Brancusi

Impossible Real Anything Things Form

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.

Anne Bradstreet

Good God Men Iron Frame Cast

With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn't elicit laughter.

Sylvester Stallone

Laughter Look Neighborhood Expression

It makes great conversation to discuss what's wrong with open-wheel racing today.

Mario Andretti

Today Great Racing Conversation

Take what you can use and let the rest go by.

Ken Kesey

Rest You Go Take Use

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

Happiness Poverty Wealth Hard Tell

During this period, Japan's peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primarily by the American rupture of commercial relations, and this was a grave threat to the survival of Japan.

Hideki Tojo

American Survival Peaceful Japan

It's a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become questions of integrity. I came to Washington in the late '70s, and people had the ability in the past to have intense policy differences but didn't feel the need to question the other person's character.

Eric Holder

Integrity Character Sad Past People

If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?

Eric Idle

Paid Artists Would Able How Afford