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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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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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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Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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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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A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
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He was a fantastic player, but the thing that impressed me most about Paul was his manner off the pitch. He was always very humble about his achievements and had a lot of time for the paying public and people in general.
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I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.
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Believe in your dreams, no matter how impossible they seem.
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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.
