"I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Walter Matthau

#Listening Quotes #Ears Quotes

“My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.”
“Why does a three-year-old, and it's usually boys, want to drive the tractor or have machinery and be in control of it? I don't know. Why wouldn't you ask to boil a kettle or something? Maybe you would, I dunno.”
“One must believe that every living thing whatsoever must change insensibly in its organization and in its form... One must therefore never expect to find among living species all those which are found in the fossil state, and yet one may not assume that any species has really been lost or rendered extinct.”
“Everybody wants to be like everybody else.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.”
“Stand up to hypocrisy. If you don't, the hypocrites will teach. Stand up to ignorance, because if you don't, the ignorant will run free to spread ignorance like a disease. Stand up for Truth! If you don't, there is no Truth to your existence. If you don't stand up for all that is right, then understand that you are part of the reason that there is no balance in the world, and why others will always stand under!”

Source : "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.
“A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition.”
“Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every heroic and intellectual effort men have made for many thousands of years, realized at last. If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.”

Source : "The God of the Machine" by Isabel Paterson, (p. 292), 1943.

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