#bout

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

#american #american history #burn #did #down

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#deplorable #doubt #doubts #even #everything

The future is the worst thing about the present. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#future #present #thing #worst #worst thing

I'm real excited about being on CBS and hosting this show. I have been studying all of the great CBS shows. I think I'm prepared, so if you're ready, let's have the first item up for bids. ↗

— Ray Combs

#been #being #bids #cbs #excited

If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#activity #agriculture #answer #ask #change

We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day. ↗

— Perry Como

#all day #also #boat #day #drift

I got a way to get through to kids. I try to take that and use that to my advantage. If we work on the kids right now, I'm telling you, they'll be making less mistakes, the jails will be gettin' less full. It's all about what we do with the kids. ↗

— Flavor Flav

#advantage #full #get #gettin #got

I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear. ↗

— Flavor Flav

#about #accomplish #all day #band #classes

For me to grow, I have to know about the foundation that came before. ↗

— David Copperfield

#before #came #foundation #grow #i

But you really - I always think that a director has got to adapt to whatever the needs of the actor are. You know, so if you take someone like Eddie Murphy, who is not a big fan of rehearsal. You know he comes out of stand-up. He comes - it's all about capturing the moment - in the moment, you know. ↗

— Bill Condon

#actor #adapt #always #big #big fan