Joanne Lipman famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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MUSIC MAY NOT MAKE YOU A GENIUS, or rich, or even a better person. But it helps train you to think differently, to process different points of view — and most important, to take pleasure in listening.
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They misunderstand us, they unwittingly belittle us, they do something that they think is nice that instead just makes us mad. And those are the good ones.
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Hollywood has its Oscars. Television has its Emmys. Broadway has its Tonys. And advertising has its Clios. And its Andys, Addys, Effies and Obies. And 117 other assorted awards. And those are just the big ones.
-- Joanne Lipman
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Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
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Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy
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In general, Hitler embodied the view of any popular newspaper.
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
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Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.
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I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.
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Failure comes when you don’t listen. You can’t put something out there and assume it’s great. It’s up to us to make sure we’re listening to improve our chances for success-if not this time, next time.
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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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