Jack Gilbert Quotes
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.
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I never feel insecure when there are two female leads.
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I had long hair when I was a teenager.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.
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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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I would have never signed the Patriot Act. I would have never signed the National Defense Authorization Act allowing for arrests and detainment of you and me as U.S. citizens without being charged.
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I want to do good stories, and I want to work with really interesting people. And if it's Noah Hawley forever, that's also amazing.
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It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.
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Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
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Beware of geeks bearing formulas.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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If thou dost love a Something, Man, Thou lovest naught that doth abide. God is not This nor That-do thou Leave Somethings utterly aside
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It would probably astound each of them beyond measure to be let into his neighbor's mind and to find how different the scenery there was from that in his own.
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I don't tend to redraft, I will try to tidy it up, but basically I feel what I write down first has got the impetus, it may be clumsy, it may be repetitive, but a good editor can take that out. That first writing bit is the best thing you will do.
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For the most part, editors no longer view 'Doonesbury' as a rolling provocation, which is fine by me. It makes no sense to intentionally antagonize the very people on whose support you most depend.
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Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
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We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.
