#ed

Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody. ↗

— Michel Legrand

#here #how #i #i think #melody

But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either. ↗

— David Sedaris

#between #distinguish #either #i #laughed

At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority. ↗

— John Leguizamo

#different #father #high #i #out

National isolation breeds national neurosis. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#isolation #national #neurosis

Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used. ↗

— David Lehman

#dictate #electrons #enter #field #fixed

There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man. ↗

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

#brain #brain damage #causes #damage #fact

I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at. ↗

— William Hung

#feel #good #i #i feel #idiot

I was brought up in black neighborhoods in South Baltimore. And we really felt like we were very black. We acted black and we spoke black. When I was a kid growing up, where I came from, it was hip to be black. To be white was kind of square. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#baltimore #black #brought #came #felt

Education is the cheap defense of nations. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#defense #education #nations

I'm more interested in being good than being famous. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#being famous #famous #good #i #interested