Haskell Wexler Quotes

I was a sailor. I was torpedoed, spent two weeks in a lifeboat. I was on the Murmansk run; I worked a 20 mm. machine gun, helped bring down a Stuka, all that kind of stuff. I've got letters from Franklin Roosevelt for things I did then. But those kind of credentials didn't work for you in the Cold War.

Haskell Wexler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 6, 1922 - December 27, 2015

Topics

WorkWarColdGunYouDown

To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.

Johannes P. Muller

LightActionSpeakNervousPrinciple

My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.

Angelina Jolie

FearChildrenMeLoseI CanWill

I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.

Tom Tancredo

ReligionPeopleSmallBelieveGroup

Sometimes, occasionally, people will make out in the audience, completely not aware that there's a human being onstage just yards away from them, who can see them. Sometimes people think that you're on television while you're onstage, so you're not even a person.

Mike Birbiglia

PeopleThinkYouTelevisionPerson

I get paralyzingly nervous a lot of times, so I tried bravado. The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: 'strength.'

Lorde

StrengthMyselfDressPeopleThink

Boom, I move to L.A. after doing 'Aftershock,' and I've been actually working here. So it's all been 'boom'; it's all been 'boom' everything. It's so exciting. It's been amazing. I'm a very lucky girl.

Lorenza Izzo

GirlAmazingDoingLuckyEverything

The crucial legacy of the personal computer is that anyone can write code for it and give or sell that code to you - and the vendors of the PC and its operating system have no more to say about it than your phone company does about which answering machine you decide to buy.

Jonathan Zittrain

LegacyYouPhoneSayPersonalWrite

My daughter couldn't care less about me being famous. She finds it revolting and, like a lot of teenagers, is virtually allergic to me. That started at 12 and hasn't gone anywhere yet.

Dawn French

DaughterMeCareFamousSheGone

Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.

Bret Michaels

MusicFeelSomeoneDoingMoreBand

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

Arnold J. Toynbee

HistoryMoralNowUnitedState

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Anthony Burgess

RareThinkersReadersPlentiful

L.A. is such a car-driven city, and it's great to see so many people - I think people are hungry to get on their bikes and get out of their cars and get off of oil and save money and save the environment.

Austin Nichols

GreatMoneyPeopleCityThinkOil

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