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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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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 like to have something that I can challenge common-sense notions about, challenge the apparent truths, and really look past the many faces of a thing to see what's behind it.
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I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.
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I've had a very full and lovely career so far, and I can't honestly say that I've ever really found myself in a man's world, struggling for an identity or trying to prove something.
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I started as a mommy blogger, and it's been really great.
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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.
