Maria Callas (1923–1977) American-born Greek operatic soprano
On making studio recordings
Callas : The Art and the Life (1974)
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“Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.”
Buster Keaton (1895–1966) American actor and filmmaker
“Several times I'd have been killed if I hadn't been able to land like a cat.”
Buster Keaton (1895–1966) American actor and filmmaker
Interview in The Detroit News (4 December 1914)
Context: The funny thing about our act is that dad gets the worst of it, although I'm the one who apparently receives the bruises … the secret is in landing limp and breaking the fall with a foot or a hand. It's a knack. I started so young that landing right is second nature with me. Several times I'd have been killed if I hadn't been able to land like a cat. Imitators of our act don't last long, because they can't stand the treatment.
“We used to get arrested every other week — that is, the old man would get arrested.”
Buster Keaton (1895–1966) American actor and filmmaker
On his underage working in stage shows, in The Detroit News (4 December 1914)
“Marriage is fine as an institution, but bad as a habit”
Buster Keaton (1895–1966) American actor and filmmaker
Interview in Motion Picture (October 1921) "Six Interviews with Buster Keaton" http://www.silentera.com/taylorology/issues/Taylor68.txt
“If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.”
Buster Keaton (1895–1966) American actor and filmmaker
As "Calvero's Partner" in Limelight (1952)
“Our hero came from Nowhere — he wasn't going Anywhere and he got kicked off Somewhere.”
Buster Keaton (1895–1966) American actor and filmmaker
The High Sign (1921, co-written with Edward F. Cline)
“A picture without falls is as bad as Niagara in the same fix”
Buster Keaton (1895–1966) American actor and filmmaker
Interview in Picture-Play Magazine (December 1920) "Six Interviews with Buster Keaton" http://www.silentera.com/taylorology/issues/Taylor68.txt
“It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.”
Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) American economist of the Austrian School, libertarian political theorist, and historian
Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989) Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist
Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968)
Context: The division of mankind threatens it with destruction. Civilization is imperiled by: a universal thermonuclear war, catastrophic hunger for most of mankind, stupefaction from the narcotic of "mass culture," and bureaucratized dogmatism, a spreading of mass myths that put entire peoples and continents under the power of cruel and treacherous demagogues, and destruction or degeneration from the unforeseeable consequences of swift changes in the conditions of life on our planet.
In the face of these perils, any action increasing the division of mankind, any preaching of the incompatibility of world ideologies and nations is madness and a crime. Only universal cooperation under conditions of intellectual freedom and the lofty moral ideals of socialism and labor, accompanied by the elimination of dogmatism and pressures of the concealed interests of ruling classes, will preserve civilization.
The reader will understand that ideological collaboration cannot apply to those fanatical, sectarian, and extremist ideologies that reject all possibility of rapprochement, discussion, and compromise, for example, the ideologies of fascist, racist, militaristic, and Maoist demagogy.
Michael Chekhov (1891–1955) Russian actor and director
To the Actor. London and New York: Routledge (2003)
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Letter http://www.artsandartists.org/exhpages/whistler.html to James McNeill Whistler (23 February 1885)
“I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 537
Sunni Hadith
“Don't live to fight, fight to live.”
Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor
Source: Resurrection, 1971-1996
Ben Shapiro (1984) American journalist and attorney
Twitter https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/133918830073352192, , quoted in * 2019-08-22<br><br>What Republicans Really Mean When They Call Jews Disloyal<br><br>Jordan Weissman<br><br>Slate<br><br>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/what-republicans-really-mean-when-they-call-jews-disloyal.html <br class="br">2011
