Kenneth Lonergan Quotes
Little kids grow up discovering the world that's shown to them and then when you become a teenager, it kind of shrinks a little bit. I think when you get past that point, one of the important things is that you see there is more to the world than yourself.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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I would love to be a role model.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
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I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
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When you strengthen women, you strengthen the world.
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Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.
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The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that's wrong.
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I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what the 1930s - the golden age of Hollywood - was truly like. People forget that America was such a different place then, not yet the dominant force in the world.
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Because my friends and family are real people, and they wear all sizes, I couldn't imagine designing something that my loved ones could not wear.
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When I was a rapper, the groupies didn't have to try too hard with me. Just show up at the hotel.
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Countries are different. They make different choices. We cannot harmonise everything.
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It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a "thinking center" that will incorporate the functions of present-day libraries together with anticipated advances in information storage and retrieval and ... a network of such centers, connected to one another by wide-band communication lines and to individual users by leased-wire services.
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Little kids grow up discovering the world that's shown to them and then when you become a teenager, it kind of shrinks a little bit. I think when you get past that point, one of the important things is that you see there is more to the world than yourself.
