Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 16, 1927 - March 26, 2003

Topics

FamilyPastGenerationMeasureOver

Often when we reach great heights in life, we forget who brought us there. Well, I have not.

Jesse White

LifeGreatReachHeightsForgetUs

I do think comedy needs to be a living thing, but I think without a great script and fully realized characters, you cannot keep it living. Otherwise, it just becomes long and rambling, indulgent. So I think you need both, frankly.

Melissa McCarthy

GreatThinkComedyLongYouLiving

It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film.

Robert Mayer

WorkGoodPeopleWorldFilmWho

Things come to you without you necessarily knowing what they mean.

Maurice Sendak

YouKnowingMeanWithoutThings

But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush.

John Sebastian

ChangeRoadClothesManagerAudience

I actually don't think Ireland has a summer. I never experienced a summer there. It was just so wet.

Travis Fimmel

ThinkSummerNeverWetJustIreland

We all come from our own little planets. That's why we're all different. That's what makes life interesting.

Robert E. Sherwood

LifeInterestingWhyLittleOwnOur

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

Judith Viorst

LoveMarriageTogetherYouFallOut

I'm not the kind of filmmaker who's going to go from one thing to the next. I often wish I was that filmmaker, but I'm just not.

Jonathan Glazer

WishGoKindNextFilmmakerGoing

Writers are, for the most part, crazy people. We're like Hephaestus of the forge. We're gnarled. We're curled over. We walk with a limp.

Courtney A. Kemp

WalkPeopleCrazyCrazy PeopleForge

Any setting can be a good setting for a novel.

Chris Pavone

GoodSettingNovelAny

My very first real job in the industry was as a production assistant on a show called 'Infinity Factory' in 1976.

Bonnie Hammer

JobFirstRealProductionIndustry

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