Lee Marvin Quotes

As soon as people see my face on a movie screen, they knew two things: first, I'm not going to get the girl, and second, I'll get a cheap funeral before the picture is over.

Lee Marvin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 19, 1924 - August 29, 1987

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GirlPeopleFacePictureFirstSee

Like many people of my generation, I feel like I survived my adolescent mischief only by a miracle, and it seems too much to hope for that the same miracle would befall my children - therefore, I want to make sure they take fewer chances than I did.

Jennifer Egan

HopeChildrenPeopleGenerationFeel

I spent five years running Manhattan GMAT helping young people get into business school.

Andrew Yang

BusinessSchoolPeopleYoungYears

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

John Cleese

DesireNowThingsUsedGetJust One

If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

Andrew Johnson

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The trained mind is a rich mind.

Robert Kiyosaki

MindRichTrained

You've got Washington picking winners and losers. And so, all of a sudden, decisions are being made on what helps politicians, not what helps the economy. Some will call it socialism. Some will call it a command and control economy. Whatever it is, it's antithetical to the American experience.

Jeb Hensarling

ExperienceControlSocialismAmerican

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

ArtFindKnowSayListenCritics

I think we have to face right in the center of the hurricane, if you will, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s foibles and faults. I think that we do no good to ourselves and do no honor to him by pretending that he did not fail, that he did not wrestle greatly and, at times, surrender to his own sins and his own faults and failures.

Michael Eric Dyson

GoodKingFaceThinkHonorYou

I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.

Sting

WorkBestPainI AmBest WorkAm

Lev Nussimbaum was born in October 1905, the moment when the tolerant, haute capitaliste culture of Baku began to fall apart.

Tom Reiss

MomentCultureFallBornApart

A one-time tax does not get figured into people's investment decisions.

Mitch Daniels

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Action films don't speak to me, because that's not my skill set. I also have a lot of stipulations about stories I don't want to perpetuate, ones that bring me down or make me feel like life's not worth living.

Debra Granik

LifeMeActionSpeakFeelDown

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