#ny

Winning the Outstanding Contribution award is great, because you know you have won in advance. Previously, I have been really nervous during the ceremony because you have no idea if you are going to get called up on stage. This time I could relax and enjoy myself. ↗

— Tom Jones

#award #because #been #called #ceremony

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself. ↗

— Pauline Kael

#artist #first #fool #himself #make

We stand strong together - as Americans - many cultures, races and faiths, but one nation under God. ↗

— Bob Taft

#faiths #god #many #nation #races

Love is when you love someone’s spirit as much as their body, even if their spirit has departed and their body is buried wherever you hid it. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#death #dying #funny #humor #love

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#life #many #pass #real #sham

Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door. ↗

— Torquato Tasso

#anyone #door #fortune #rarely

I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along. ↗

— Diane Keaton

#any #around #build #get #gets

Of course I'm a publicity hound. Aren't all crusaders? How can you accomplish anything unless people know what you are trying to do? ↗

— Vivien Kellems

#anything #course #hound #how #i

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think. ↗

— Dorothy Kilgallen

#bruce #improve #lenny #lenny bruce #make

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

#act #any #comes #deny #easily