Robert Klein quote: "But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that I should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there."

In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream a...
ROBERT KLEIN

I wrote my book 'The Amorous Busboy Of Decatur Avenue' completely like a writer does, writin...
ROBERT KLEIN

One of my greatest inspirations for stand-up was Jonathan Winters. He was a genius. One thing about ...
ROBERT KLEIN

There is a cliche that probably has some anecdotal evidence on the side that comedians are very depr...
ROBERT KLEIN

Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy an...
ROBERT KLEIN

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves c...
ROBERT KLEIN

I applaud Senator Feinstein and Governor Schwarzenegger who are part of the growing bipartisan coali...
ROBERT KLEIN

As we developed that reputation, the volume has increased, ... Being a new facility and having high ...
ROBERT KLEIN

uncharted leap of blind faith.
ROBERT KLEIN

So it took me five years because in the interim I have been doing a lot of personal appearances and ...
ROBERT KLEIN

I have a work-out regime; I am not a maniac. It sounds cliche, but stand-up comedy, doing a one-man ...
ROBERT KLEIN

And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for com...
ROBERT KLEIN

The '50s were terrifying with nuclear bomb stuff but boring in a social way, and then the '6...
ROBERT KLEIN

California is the only state that has the capacity to do a substitute national program. California h...
ROBERT KLEIN

I'm not against profanity. It's an important part of the language when used properly.
ROBERT KLEIN

The Show Goes On: Terrorists Still Doing Business in Canada
ROBERT KLEIN

They do not come to represent those institutions.
ROBERT KLEIN

For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same r...
YVES KLEIN

The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, ...
YVES KLEIN

The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
CALVIN KLEIN

I worked on a farm. Played ball and loafed along the fishing and swimming holes of the White River, ...
CHUCK KLEIN

The newly released movie 'Noah' features a retelling of the creation story that clearly depi...
AARON KLEIN

Lost in much of the national debate about immigration reform is how Democrats ultimately stand to ga...
AARON KLEIN

The Obama administration has issued numerous orders essentially suspending deportations, prompting a...
AARON KLEIN

Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it re...
AARON KLEIN

The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.
AARON KLEIN

Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massi...
AARON KLEIN

Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think...
AARON KLEIN

I have been under assault by the liberal media in the United States.
AARON KLEIN

Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta&#...
AARON KLEIN

Was Sen. Barack Obama a Muslim? Did he ever practice Islam? The presidential candidate officially re...
AARON KLEIN

When Obama was first proposed as a presidential candidate in 2007, the nation failed to have a meani...
AARON KLEIN

Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying ...
AARON KLEIN

I personally would not have plastic surgery. What the hell for? It looks ridiculous.
CALVIN KLEIN

Traditionally, the sample is always better than the stock you deliver to the store.
CALVIN KLEIN

I don't always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I'd like to maintain.
CALVIN KLEIN

It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more th...
CALVIN KLEIN

I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that&#...
CALVIN KLEIN

I don't think about my fame very much.
CALVIN KLEIN

AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribu...
CALVIN KLEIN

I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
CALVIN KLEIN

Levi's can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.
CALVIN KLEIN

I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My...
CALVIN KLEIN

I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like gra...
CALVIN KLEIN

I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.
CALVIN KLEIN

I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.
CALVIN KLEIN

I think there's something incredibly sexy about a woman wearing her boyfriend's T-shirt and ...
CALVIN KLEIN

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
CALVIN KLEIN

If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
CALVIN KLEIN

I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.
CALVIN KLEIN

You don't only worry about the people who hate or resent you; in a way, you're more worried ...
CALVIN KLEIN

It's fun seeing my label on someone's behind - I like that.
CALVIN KLEIN

Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
CALVIN KLEIN

I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill.
CALVIN KLEIN

I'm crazy, and I don't pretend to be anything else.
CALVIN KLEIN

I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the ...
CALVIN KLEIN

The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose an...
FELIX KLEIN

Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuit...
FELIX KLEIN

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through t...
FELIX KLEIN

Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicos...
JOE KLEIN

The parties with the most gain never show up on the battlefield.
NAOMI KLEIN

I can trace every romance of my life back to a meal. My memories are enhanced by the tender morsels ...
STEPHANIE KLEIN

Fundamentally, the task is to articulate not just an alternative set of policy proposals but an alte...
NAOMI KLEIN

Girls are always saying things like, “I’m so unhappy that I’m going to overdose on aspirin,”...
RACHEL KLEIN

Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.
STEPHANIE KLEIN

First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And th...
NICHOLAS KLEIN

Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.
JOE KLEIN

The problem with Donald Trump is that he went and designed a brand that is entirely amoral.
NAOMI KLEIN

A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made wi...
NAOMI KLEIN

My grandfather was actually a union organizer at Walt Disney. He was an animator. He used to draw Do...
NAOMI KLEIN

Ever since John Kennedy, Democrats have had a weakness for dashing younger men like Bill Clinton and...
JOE KLEIN

Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, an...
ALLEN KLEIN

No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself.
ALLEN KLEIN

The only way to advertise is by not focusing on the product.
CALVIN KLEIN

It is still not clear from this study how laughter can directly help the heart but other studies hav...
ALLEN KLEIN

I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal ...
ALLEN KLEIN

The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own prob...
ALLEN KLEIN

Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult of times.
ALLEN KLEIN

To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.
ALLEN KLEIN

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.
ALLEN KLEIN

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.
ALLEN KLEIN

Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may ha...
ALLEN KLEIN

Humor can be one of our best survival tools.
ALLEN KLEIN

When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to g...
ALLEN KLEIN

When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience i...
ALLEN KLEIN

When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention.
ALLEN KLEIN

Laughing is also good for your respiratory system.
ALLEN KLEIN

Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until ...
ALLEN KLEIN

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life afte...
ALLEN KLEIN

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
ALLEN KLEIN

A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.
ALLEN KLEIN

Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do ...
ALLEN KLEIN

It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.
ALLEN KLEIN

Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so mu...
ALLEN KLEIN

You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.
ALLEN KLEIN

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform t...
ALLEN KLEIN

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
ALLEN KLEIN

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.
ALLEN KLEIN

Research has shown that people who volunteer often live longer.
ALLEN KLEIN

Well, there's nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a good...
CHRIS KLEIN

Everyone wants to say they hate lawyers, and yet I've never met a parent who didn't want the...
JESSI KLEIN

Fossil fuels are - they're inherently centralized. And you need a lot of infrastructure to get t...
NAOMI KLEIN

The more hardcore conservative you are, the more tightly identified you are with defending the inter...
NAOMI KLEIN

One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find ...
MELANIE KLEIN

If there is one thing BP's 'watery improv act' made clear, it is that, as a culture, we ...
NAOMI KLEIN

A state of shock is what results when a gap opens up between events and our initial ability to expla...
NAOMI KLEIN

I want to go to Australia and take the same goofy picture of me holding a koala that everyone else t...
JESSI KLEIN

There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; ...
CALVIN KLEIN

Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array...
JOE KLEIN

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications...
FELIX KLEIN

Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and at...
NAOMI KLEIN

I was digging in the backyard to get my own clay and making pottery. And then I started taking pictu...
STEVEN KLEIN

If he'd been negotiating Obamacare, Lincoln would have made the infamous 'Cornhusker Kickbac...
JOE KLEIN

I was a loser, a bad kid, I wasn't really into anything, and then someone gave me a camera and I...
STEVEN KLEIN

I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all th...
NAOMI KLEIN

Every opportunity that comes your way, you can't take lightly. You have to take it very, very se...
CHRIS KLEIN

That's the trick of free market economic theory: it doesn't just ask you to only be selfish ...
NAOMI KLEIN

I'm a big proponent of accountability.
JONATHAN KLEIN

It is only through silent awareness that our physical and mental nature can change. This change is c...
JEAN KLEIN

What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.
STEPHANIE KLEIN

My wardrobe consists of antique clothes, many of my designs, plus shoes and shirts from Brooks Broth...
CALVIN KLEIN

The Heartland Institute, which people mostly only know in terms of the fact that it hosts these annu...
NAOMI KLEIN

In committing an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces to join international Ebola relief efforts in West Afri...
AARON KLEIN

I've been trying to pinpoint what keeps drawing me back to the Gulf of Mexico, because I'm C...
NAOMI KLEIN

The way I see it, love is an amusement park, and food its souvenir.
STEPHANIE KLEIN

I'm sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso paintin...
JESSI KLEIN

I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy.
CALVIN KLEIN

What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '...
NAOMI KLEIN

Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
NAOMI KLEIN

Bush the Elder's stature as president grows with every passing year. He was the finest foreign p...
JOE KLEIN

In point of fact, 'Simpson-Bowles' has become a symbol, or SimBowl, rather than an actual pl...
JOE KLEIN

While everyone is focused on security and civil liberties, Trump's Cabinet of billionaires will ...
NAOMI KLEIN

Here in Canada, the people who oppose the tar sands most forcefully are Indigenous people living dow...
NAOMI KLEIN

Barack Obama's inspirational whoosh to the presidency in 2008 was unusual. Most campaigns are le...
JOE KLEIN

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a fo...
JOE KLEIN

As soon as you write about climate change, the first attempt to discredit you is, 'Well, you wro...
NAOMI KLEIN

This dilettante notion that the global economy is evil because big corporate leaders make too much m...
JOE KLEIN

The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified d...
NAOMI KLEIN

If I have one wish for my birthday, it is that 35 is the end of desperation and the beginning of acc...
JESSI KLEIN

When I started in the press there were really ink-stained wretches. Not everybody went to college. N...
JOE KLEIN

The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural
CALVIN KLEIN

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.
STEPHANIE KLEIN

There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on...
STEPHANIE KLEIN

That's the thing about being a former fat camp champ: when asked if I'd change my past if I could, I...
STEPHANIE KLEIN

I'd heard it all the time, 'Live in the moment.' But if I did that, I'd weigh more than a dump truck...
STEPHANIE KLEIN

I already knew to eat clean and listen to my body, to only eat when I was in a calm mental state. Ev...
STEPHANIE KLEIN

It's sweating the small stuff.
SAUL KLEIN

That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of yo...
NAOMI KLEIN

Drilling without thinking has of course been Republican party policy since May 2008. With gas prices...
NAOMI KLEIN

Because the Republicans are never going to turn on Trump so long as he still has his base, and he wi...
NAOMI KLEIN

I think he probably picked up a good three percent of the votes and probably cements his [win] if th...
STEPHEN KLEIN

Hotels are probably the best design showrooms for beds and home furnishings that exist right now. Pe...
ROSS KLEIN

Her being with Tom has nothing to do with her and I discontinuing our relationship, ... Access Holly...
CHRIS KLEIN

No one looked at that stuff, ... They didn't invest based on those documents. They wanted to invest ...
GARY KLEIN

No one looked at that stuff. They didn't invest based on those documents. They wanted to invest in K...
GARY KLEIN

There are things that government can do to incentivize the free market to do a better job, yes. But ...
NAOMI KLEIN

I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.
NAOMI KLEIN

I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, ...
NAOMI KLEIN

If there was one fact that sent me hurtling off to write 'Politics Lost,' it was when I lear...
JOE KLEIN

Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming...
CHRIS KLEIN

The companies' flagrant and contemptuous disregard of a binding consent decree is wholly unacceptabl...
JOEL KLEIN

When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speak...
NAOMI KLEIN

In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican d...
NAOMI KLEIN

You know that Moses was spinning like crazy in Exodus XIV through XVII when the Jewish people wanted...
JOE KLEIN

It took me ten years to get back to where I was before I entered public education. I don't want anyo...
JOSH KLEIN

There are so many different kinds of leather, and you'll see very strong architectural leather that ...
CALVIN KLEIN

Lear has a lot of operating issues that they still have to resolve. I can't see much upside in this ...
GREGG KLEIN

My psycho-analytic work has convinced me that when in the baby's mind the conflicts between love...
MELANIE KLEIN

I think it's weird that the news cedes so much ground to Wikipedia. That isn't true in other...
EZRA KLEIN

One shouldn't gamble with what is irreplaceable and precious.
NAOMI KLEIN

We need to invest in healthcare, in education, in the sciences. And in so doing, we will tackle one ...
NAOMI KLEIN

When I got there, he opened the back of his vehicle and it was just packed,
BUTCH KLEIN

Maybe Trump himself will be voted out through impeachment, right?
NAOMI KLEIN

I think it just shows that there are fads and fashions that come and go in the transportation indust...
STEPHEN KLEIN

The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost reme...
ALLEN KLEIN

There is a triple layer of jargon when writing about climate change. You have the scientists, who ar...
NAOMI KLEIN

In my 36 years experience, I've never been under any kind of clock, chess or otherwise. Judges move ...
ALAN KLEIN

A large-scale crisis - whether a terrorist attack or a financial crash - would likely provide the pr...
NAOMI KLEIN

How the Pan-European market evolves will clearly effect how utilities choose to leverage renewable e...
ALEX KLEIN

James Caldwell was too big a person for just one activity. He was a great teacher and artist, a phil...
ALEX KLEIN

We have made demands to Castle Village, and I have had conversations about paying the city expenses,...
ALLEN KLEIN

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger
ALLEN KLEIN

Our problem is holding that lead and making Houston or any other team panic when they're a goal down...
CHRIS KLEIN

Then the price of oil went down and the rest of Canada, of course, were wringing their hands in glee...
RALPH KLEIN

Because we are federally funded (by Community Development Block Grant funds), we're open to nonresid...
CAROL KLEIN

Our investigation has uncovered several specific examples where consumers have actually been harmed,...
JOEL KLEIN

Florida bass react more to cold fronts than their northern cousins. They just shut down. When the Pu...
GARY KLEIN

After the Pearl Harbor attacks, around 120,000 Japanese Americans were jailed in internment camps. I...
NAOMI KLEIN

We created this menu line-up to add even more variety to our everyday HAVE IT YOUR WAY® options and...
RUSS KLEIN

I'm reminding them to look at the big picture, at what we contribute to the Confederation,
RALPH KLEIN

There was somewhat of a perfect storm helping GM today.
GREGG KLEIN

It's bad news for everyone.
GREGG KLEIN

It's going to be tough to come up with (an exact bond) value because of pensions and other things th...
GREGG KLEIN

I'm surprised we don't run into more of them.
AMY KLEIN

I knew if we came in and had our best day, we would be in the hunt. For the most part, the girls cam...
AMY KLEIN

It was nice for everyone to get together and just talk. We get so busy with school and jobs that we ...
AMY KLEIN

For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix ...
JOE KLEIN

Companionship was at the top of Epicurus's list of life's pleasures. He wrote, 'Of all the things th...
DANIEL KLEIN

They will have words like Christmas and Jesus in them, which makes them a little harder to filter ou...
ANDREW KLEIN

Right now it is tracking higher than that.
ANDREW KLEIN

But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that I should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there.

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But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that I should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there.

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