George Colman Quotes

On their own merits modest men are dumb.

George Colman

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MenDumbOwnModestMerits

I went to public school, and I didn't do well in school. And it wasn't until, actually, I got into school at Juilliard - it was the first time in my life that I thought, 'Oh, maybe I'm not stupid,' because I was so inspired and passionate about what I was learning, and it was the first time in my life I had felt that.

Jessica Chastain

LifeLearningTimeSchoolStupid

Billy Crystal, Steve Martin do wonderful things.

Jerry Lewis

CrystalWonderfulThingsSteveBilly

The mainstream media tend to lump everything together. To them, there's no difference between Madonna, the Rolling Stones, or whatever.

Angus Young

TogetherMediaDifferenceEverything

I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.

Amanda Palmer

ArtSimplePerformanceThinkPlace

Trump could teach Republicans in Washington a lot if only they stopped posturing long enough to watch carefully.

Tucker Carlson

EnoughLongWashingtonTeachWatch

You'll have time to rest when you're dead.

Robert De Niro

TimeDeathRestYouDead

I don't know what ontological means... I barely graduated high school, and I have never heard that word in conversation.

Lou Barlow

SchoolHigh SchoolConversationKnow

Sometimes arguments get publicized so much that it gets blown all the hell out of proportion.

Dickey Betts

HellSometimesOutGetProportion

There is a class of persons whose souls are essentially non-conductors to the electricity of sentiment, and whose minds seem to be filled with their own train of thinking, convictions, and purposes to the exclusion of everything else.

William Godwin

ThinkingElectricityTrainClassOwn

To do two things at once is to do neither.

Publilius Syrus

TwoThingsOnceNeither

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

Peter Ustinov

FreedomPressureAmericaChoose

A lot of people don't want to know, but I'd like to know if I have a 10 percent or a 90 percent chance of developing Alzheimer's some day. If I know I'm likely to develop it, I'm certainly going to start looking around right now to find if there is something that I can do to offset it.

Rick Smolan

DayPeopleLookingStartChanceNow

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