Bert Lance Quotes
I don't know how smart I am. I just try to be what I am. I hope I'm modest. I think that's a desirable trait.
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I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
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China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
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If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing - anyone dressed up like that could be intimidating to men and women, really. It's so, look at me. Do you know what I mean? But I love women.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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Im not your biggest girly girl.
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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I've always loved Elsa Dorfman work. I've loved her and her work is so much an expression of her. One of the reasons to make the film is to expose Elsa, hopefully, to a wider audience.
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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I'm tough, and you know what? New Yorkers deserve that. They work head, they fight it out, they slug it out. And they deserve a mayor or a speaker who's going to do the same.
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So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.
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I don't know how smart I am. I just try to be what I am. I hope I'm modest. I think that's a desirable trait.
