Cheryl Hayashi Quotes
The next time you see a spider web, please, pause and look a little closer. You'll be seeing one of the most high-performance materials known to man.
Quotes to Explore
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.
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There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.
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I was born in St. Louis but lived there just for a few minutes in my life.
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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
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A country that has really resonated with me and I was really impressed with was Israel. I found that the whole country had a very special atmosphere. I was there to perform, but it was one of the few places that I've visited over the years that I had some free time to explore, and I was hugely impressed by all the religious history there.
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Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. I reflected on the subject of my spare-time literary activities. One Beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings.
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I didn't harbor a huge desire to become a chef until I graduated from college.
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The next time you see a spider web, please, pause and look a little closer. You'll be seeing one of the most high-performance materials known to man.
