In the early days of the crash it was widely believed that Jesse L. Livermore, a Bostonian with a large and unquestionably… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Key feature of sexual revolution is the large-scale publication and commercialization of details that were once secret. Sexuality has been trivialized. The… — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
Medicine may be the lens through which I see the world, but since I think of medicine as 'life +', a place… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable. — Paul Lynde Copy Share Image
When you do a movie as opposed to a TV show, it's always tempting to think everything has to be big and… — Armando Iannucci Copy Share Image
There's not a lot of people expressing anger in the culture. They're expressing a lot of hyper-exaggerated sexuality. — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
Africa is always only portrayed as a continent of suffering, but most figures are vastly exaggerated. — James Shikwati Copy Share Image
One of the problems and the reason why Carolyn [Maloney ] wrote the book, the Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes. — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
When it comes to bullshit, you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims: religion...… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
My role in the White House was grossly exaggerated by the press. Fortunately for the American people, when the president had to… — Hamilton Jordan Copy Share Image
Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Charities are now working to give people in poor countries access to the Internet. But shouldn't we spend that money on providing… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in natureto… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Lastly, the great uncertainty of all data in War is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, to a certain extent, be… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Never lose yourself on the stage. Always act in your own person, as an artist. The moment you lose yourself on the… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
You can graduate a man's progress in religion by the amount of prayer, not by the number of hours perhaps, but by… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
Although the 'New York Times' annually declares that Broadway is on its deathbed, news of its demise is greatly exaggerated. There's a… — John Lahr Copy Share Image