Herb Landau quote: "There are no community centers, no senior centers or youth centers. We have to serve all those purposes. We have become the community center, almost by default."

When the state cut library budgets a while back, I began to study fundraising techniques. The only t...
HERB LANDAU

The state, county, and local governments here really don't support us that well.
HERB LANDAU

We try to balance the collection. The staff and I walk a tightrope, and there are occasional contest...
HERB LANDAU

I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.
JON LANDAU

They were like little palaces: all rococo or art deco. You'd walk in off those hot streets into ...
MARTIN LANDAU

Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative...
SAUL LANDAU

Patrick Henry railed against taxation without representation. He should see it with representation.
SAUL LANDAU

James Taylor may be an all-American boy but he isn't Horatio Alger, and the lionizing of many ro...
JON LANDAU

'Sing It Again Rod' touches all the solo bases since Stewart's departure from the Jeff B...
JON LANDAU

I have an action figure, and so do my parents, so it's odd that we all have these dolls of ourse...
JULIET LANDAU

One gets the impression that Elvis Presley does what his business advisors think will be most profit...
JON LANDAU

Ageism is something that does exist.
MARTIN LANDAU

The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and s...
JON LANDAU

A lot of the time with an independent production, you go onto the set, and you rehearse it in front ...
MARTIN LANDAU

Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their...
JON LANDAU

The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry.
MARTIN LANDAU

It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything els...
JON LANDAU

I did theatrical caricatures.
MARTIN LANDAU

As a Jew, there's a need to keep that atrocity alive. There were Catholics and gypsies and homos...
MARTIN LANDAU

Elton John can be a master of the sleight of hand. The arrangements make it seem like there are subs...
JON LANDAU

Barry White seemed so filled with self-parody at first that it was easy to dismiss him. But it is be...
JON LANDAU

Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing ...
MARTIN LANDAU

I like working in both movies and television. Television is faster, not very much rehearsal and a lo...
JULIET LANDAU

Ringo Starr may not have much of a voice, but when he sang a song on a Beatle album, it had its own ...
JON LANDAU

I had hair down to my shoulders, a beard and mustache. I was crude and rude.
MARTIN LANDAU

Life is a roller coaster. There are ups; there are downs. There are hills; there are valleys, peaks,...
MARTIN LANDAU

There were many stars in Motown's firmament - among them, Stevie, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, ...
JON LANDAU

The Rolling Stones are constantly changing, but beneath the changes they remain the most formal of r...
JON LANDAU

In any age range, there are some limitations in terms of good, good parts.
MARTIN LANDAU

A good director makes a playground and allows you to play.
MARTIN LANDAU

Sly Stone doesn't make good albums: only good records. His style is so infinite and revolves aro...
JON LANDAU

We must not give in to the prime minister's regime of intimidation.
UZI LANDAU

I love to see lack of clarity in a performance as well as clarity, as well as trust, as well as the ...
MARTIN LANDAU

I studied with Strasberg, Elia Kazan. They raised the bar. They weren't easy to please, and they...
MARTIN LANDAU

I trained as an actor with Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, and Harold Clurman, and those guys set a very ...
MARTIN LANDAU

Subliminally, I had always wanted to act. Although I had only performed in a couple of plays, I was ...
MARTIN LANDAU

James Taylor is the kind of person I always thought the word 'folksinger' referred to. He wr...
JON LANDAU

There is a 'patrician arrogance' to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity wh...
JON LANDAU

To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth cul...
JON LANDAU

Needless to say, I'm very excited about a partnership with Sporting News Radio. Sporting News Radio ...
DAVID LANDAU

I've bounced back and forth between what would be best for Robert, having a sibling and somebody to ...
DAWN LANDAU

I did 12 shows in 13 weeks at a summer theater in Maine where we were paid $35 a week. After taxes a...
MARTIN LANDAU

We are continuing to reap the disastrous ramifications of Sharon's Gaza withdrawal. All the bad guys...
UZI LANDAU

Since her landmark 'Tapestry,' Carole King has both oversimplified and over elaborated that ...
JON LANDAU

The prime minister wants to appoint these two because they served him through all the democratic man...
UZI LANDAU

I was offered the Gene Hackman role in 'The Poseidon Adventure' four times, and I turned it ...
MARTIN LANDAU

As a performing group, the Beatles began by playing old rock favorites, for dancing, to tough audien...
JON LANDAU

Great teachers are the ones who inspire you.
MARTIN LANDAU

I don't like to do what I call 'the grunters' - a character who sits at a table and grun...
MARTIN LANDAU

I did a picture called 'Lovely, Still' with Ellen Burstyn, We screened it to the AARP people...
MARTIN LANDAU

It is by now beyond question that Elton John is a competent and classy entertainer. Few people who h...
JON LANDAU

In another two months, all this empathy for Sharon will be over.
UZI LANDAU

I think this was a concession to Egypt so Egypt would vote together with the U.S. and Western states...
EMILY LANDAU

If this carries on, ... the momentum to create what's called a government of national unity will bec...
DAVID LANDAU

I think people will look back at this period as the Golden Age of animation. There used to be one st...
YAIR LANDAU

But he just doesn't have the charisma.
UZI LANDAU

Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang.
SAUL LANDAU

He didn't want to make a sequel. And he's never made a sequel. There was a culmination of part of hi...
JON LANDAU

He epitomized that dissatisfied young teenager. He looked like the boy next door, but he behaved dif...
MARTIN LANDAU

I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take. That way you can find stuff and keep addi...
MARTIN LANDAU

Agents have enormous power that studios relinquished to them. The studios, when I first came to Holl...
MARTIN LANDAU

The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious w...
JON LANDAU

(Cedric Price produced the Potteries Thinkbelt) ...project which questioned most of the cherished es...
ROY LANDAU

For me, it does not 'miss' if (the Potteries Thinkbelt study) goes into the archive, not as an examp...
ROY LANDAU

My mantra is 'stay perpendicular.' Horizontal is not as good.
MARTIN LANDAU

My technique has always been to include all the periphery around me.
MARTIN LANDAU

Atlantic's Jerry Wexler believes first-rate records are made by first-rate voices. He certainly ...
JON LANDAU

I've worked with a lot of wooden actors in my day, but Pinocchio is the best.
MARTIN LANDAU

Of course, I remember the Disney 'Pinocchio.' I was a little kid then... It was very instruc...
MARTIN LANDAU

Bob Dylan has always sealed his decisions with the unexplainable. His motives for withholding the re...
JON LANDAU

The title song of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' is one of his handful of classics, a b...
JON LANDAU

I really like the fact that I can have a life for myself and have enough time to have a great time w...
DAWN LANDAU

I always thought for sure I would have two, growing up.
DAWN LANDAU

I don't think there's a desire on any side to deal with this militarily. I think that . . . everybod...
EMILY LANDAU

Israel was trying to sharpen the idea that if nothing happens by March we're really going to be a po...
EMILY LANDAU

I don't think there's a desire on any side to deal with this militarily.
EMILY LANDAU

My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my w...
JON LANDAU

Carole King's second album, 'Tapestry,' has fulfilled the promise of her first and confi...
JON LANDAU

This is a moment in which both sides are new boys on the block, and nothing that was done prior need...
DAVID LANDAU

...They form an important part of his coalition.
DAVID LANDAU

so badly with the right that I honestly can't see much that he can do by way of winning them back ov...
DAVID LANDAU

The plan, the idea, the concept is to isolate Jerusalem from the Palestinian hinterland, and to say ...
DAVID LANDAU

You talk about it and people want it. People want to feel secure and feel everybody is in the tent a...
DAVID LANDAU

'Dance to the Music' was just Sly Stone being his natural crazy self right from the beginnin...
JON LANDAU

The year I got into The Actors Studio, Steve McQueen and I were the only two accepted that whole yea...
MARTIN LANDAU

There are not many A-list directors who get to make the movies they want to make. I know two: Woody ...
MARTIN LANDAU

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
HERB CAEN

You're looking for players whose name on the front of the sweater is more important than the one...
HERB BROOKS

You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.
HERB BROOKS

I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I hav...
HERB RITTS

The clear, unmistakable sign of a bureaucrat is somebody who worries about whether he has a window.
HERB KELLEHER

I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.
HERB RITTS

I'd say my mother made more of a difference to me than anyone else did. I know that's a conv...
HERB KELLEHER

Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.
HERB KELLEHER

I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.
HERB ALPERT

This was during a period when I was producing Brazil '66 records and got infected by Brazilian m...
HERB ALPERT

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
HERB CAEN

Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.
HERB SHRINER

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
HERB CAEN

All you need to be a fisherman is patience and a worm.
HERB SHRINER

The struggle of the male to learn to listen to and respect his own intuitive, inner prompting is the...
HERB GOLDBERG

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
HERB COHEN

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
HERB CAEN

It's time to stop defending a system that is clearly in dire need of reform, stop issuing report...
HERB KOHL

Just because you don't announce your plan doesn't mean you don't have one.
HERB KELLEHER

I guess the worst moment I ever had in business was the fear that Southwest Airlines wouldn't ge...
HERB KELLEHER

When I started working on Southwest Airlines, I kid you not, only people flying on business and very...
HERB KELLEHER

The spirit of Southwest Airlines is exuberant, it's caring, it's dedicated, it's diligen...
HERB KELLEHER

Keep costs low and spirits high, and the people of Southwest Airlines will keep LUV in the air.
HERB KELLEHER

You can't have a mid-life crisis in the airline industry because every day is a crisis.
HERB KELLEHER

We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution...
HERB KOHL

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.
HERB ALPERT

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.
HERB CAEN

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of i...
HERB CAEN

Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come ba...
HERB KELLEHER

Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elem...
HERB RITTS

Wild Turkey whiskey and Philip Morris cigarettes are essential to the maintenance of human life!
HERB KELLEHER

A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are tra...
HERB CAEN

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who eve...
HERB ALPERT

I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a parti...
HERB RITTS

I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was ...
HERB RITTS

A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopota...
HERB CAEN

Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a sale...
HERB RITTS

Everything goes in cycles, to a degree.
HERB BROOKS

Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like dri...
HERB BRODY

Online campaigning is becoming more commonplace.
HERB ASHER

Clearly, issues of ethics and corruption will be playing a significant role in our discussions of po...
HERB ASHER

You will most likely find a tremendous difference in opinion from certain Ohio universities.
HERB ASHER

The state, for a long period of time, has been undergoing a wrenching economic transformation. The r...
HERB ASHER

I think the Democrats have done a better job on voter registration efforts. Whether you can get thos...
HERB ASHER

When he comes to Ohio, the economy really gets emphasized. They have incorporated the fact that Ohio...
HERB ASHER

He's worked very hard on all fronts in the state.
HERB ASHER

Any state can make a difference, but when you look at the arithmetic, ... it's hard to imagine that ...
HERB ASHER

People perceive the campaign to be close, so that should stimulate people to vote. And the media env...
HERB ASHER

We wonder why we're electing Democrats and Republicans who seem to be more extreme than the average ...
HERB ASHER

Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I ...
HERB ALPERT

Unfortunately, what they're playing on the radio now is not really fair to a lot of great musicians ...
HERB ALPERT

It's powerful. 'Whipped Cream' happened 40 years ago. It still resonates with people.
HERB ALPERT

I haven't seen this many people since I played bar mitzvahs years ago.
HERB ALPERT

It's certainly an honor. When I got the call I didn't sure how to react, to tell you the truth. It w...
HERB ALPERT

My first instinct was not to do it. I didn't want to trample on ( Whipped Cream ).
HERB ALPERT

There was a certain naturalness that was happening in the '60s and '70s that felt more like a happen...
HERB ALPERT

Is there an audience for it? I don't know. I don't think it's the audience who bought it originally....
HERB ALPERT

This special event at Vibrato brought together many people sharing a common bond - a love of jazz an...
HERB ALPERT

We finally got our big break when Ed Sullivan put us on his show.
HERB ALPERT

See it like it is!
HERB COHEN

There are more of them than us.
HERB CAEN

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
HERB CAEN

Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angles to San Francisco live there?
HERB CAEN

The trouble with Oakland is that when you get there, it's there.
HERB CAEN

All American cars are basically Chevrolets.
HERB CAEN

If I'd have went on the ice when this thing happened, someone would have speared me or something...
HERB BROOKS

There's something about dealing with government agencies that makes you feel like a criminal.
HERB TRIMPE

On his 20th birthday? How about that! He's a good shooter -- if he's open at the top of the key he c...
HERB SENDEK

We've been pushing that Manu is certainly the only athlete that crosses Anglo, Hispanic and European...
HERB RUDOY

We need to take steps to strengthen and mend Social Security so that its promise of a secure retirem...
HERB KOHL

That's why I felt so at home when I went to Africa. It didn't matter that I was halfway arou...
HERB RITTS

If I'd have went on the ice when this thing happened, someone would have speared me or something. It...
HERB BROOKS

Many people who excel are self-taught.
HERB RITTS

The people of Southwest have always been my pride, my joy and my love. Their indomitable dedication ...
HERB KELLEHER

A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahea...
HERB CAEN

If you look at a record under a microscope, the high frequencies are short jagged edges... and the l...
HERB ALPERT

I find that it's nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else's feelings. You get...
HERB ALPERT

I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airp...
HERB KELLEHER

Instrumental music can spread the international language.
HERB ALPERT

I thought our guys just showed tremendous character tonight. It's always good to be on the bus with ...
HERB SENDEK

I thought we were quick to settle for the 3. At the same time, we did miss some open shots.
HERB SENDEK

It's a team game. Those guys didn't take a lot of shots. We were attacking what we thought was there...
HERB SENDEK

I was so happy when she returned to the area last year. What they're doing here is very commendable.
HERB EDWARDS

I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the r...
HERB RITTS

Teaching is like flying a plane. You leave school one day feeling like you're spiraling down tow...
HERB TRIMPE

I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid...
HERB RITTS

I think my greatest moment in business was when the first Southwest airplane arrived after four year...
HERB KELLEHER

This is your moment. You're meant to be here.
HERB BROOKS

If the employees come first, then they're happy, ... A motivated employee treats the customer well. ...
HERB KELLEHER

One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'
HERB CAEN

It's all hands on deck; the ship is being shelled,
HERB KELLEHER

It was a good, thorough whipping. We were outperformed in every way. There was no indication that we...
HERB SENDEK

Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after...
HERB CAEN

For me, the most important thing I learned was just honing my eye. I think I had a good eye.
HERB RITTS

A bridge is only a bridge, a highway in the sky. The ferryboats were close to the foaming heart of t...
HERB CAEN

One day if I do go to heaven...
I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Franci...
HERB CAEN

Those things were all possible through the stewardship program, and if we hadn't had those dollars, ...
HERB BEHNKE

I would ask that you approve the final plat but that Mayor Scott doesn't have to sign off if he is n...
HERB KLEIN

Sometimes when you turn the calendar to March, everybody gets a fresh breath.
HERB SENDEK

Sirens are not a good option, especially with our topography.
HERB THOMAS

It must be said that all entrants were extremely talented, and there were no losers at this event.
HERB THOMAS

There's a lot of reasons not to reinvent the wheel here.
HERB THOMAS

With their inside prowess, it makes it more challenging to guard them. What makes them so special is...
HERB SENDEK

We hope that this will become a new tradition in Tucson, bringing film lovers back to the Fox.
HERB STRATFORD

It's all a charade. Norris is a superb salesman, but I'm not buying what he's selling.
HERB LEVINE

On the whole, to capture the bronze medal is really what we wanted. Especially since we graduated 75...
HERB MONES

She's looking at how Paula improved so much since she's been out here. She knew Paula as a junior, c...
HERB KRICKSTEIN

You're looking for players whose name on the front of the sweater is more important than the one on ...
HERB BROOKS

We were outplayed, out-coached and thoroughly whipped by a very good North Carolina team. Our reboun...
HERB SENDEK

We wouldn't think we'd have to postpone the game.
HERB VINCENT

Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.
HERB RITTS

We just had to get the margin sliced before the half, and we did some good things. When Tony hit tha...
HERB SENDEK

Kurt is a smart enough player to know how to fit in, ... He's one of the guys that you feel comforta...
HERB WILLIAMS

We've got our sights set on them. If they stumble, hopefully we can step in there.
HERB HARRIS

There are no community centers, no senior centers or youth centers. We have to serve all those purposes. We have become the community center, almost by default.

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There are no community centers, no senior centers or youth centers. We have to serve all those purposes. We have become the community center, almost by default.

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