Mark Helprin Quotes
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
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Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.
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You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.
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It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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If I had to start over, I'll do the same thing: street clothes are the future; the client can choose two or three things and combine them as she wants.
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I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.
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I'm pretty much a self-taught player. My swing hasn't changed a whole lot, I don't think. But I watch a lot of people.
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We go through the whole season working on next season's car and developing the car and making sure we fit in the car and all that sort of stuff. And we obviously give ideas of what we would hope next year's car would have even if it's small things like buttons on the steering wheel and different positions and whatever.
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I'm super and very openly obsessed with voice-over. 'In a World...' was my love letter to the industry of voice-over. And in a way, I sometimes think of it as a 93-minute audition to the voice-over industry to say, 'Hey. Consider me!'
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As much as I love art, there is no art as fine as the world we have been given.
