Mark Spitz Quotes
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Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
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I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.
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I have this group of friends that I'll send my scripts to before I send them to a large audience.
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My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
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I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
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Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.
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In the 1930s and the 1940s, we set up the FHA. We set up the Home Owners' Loan Corporation. We set up specific bureaus to make our communities look the way they look.
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We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.
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I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy town.
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I have my cousin's jacket from when he was at war in Iraq. He never came home. It's incredible to have something that is so personal but that I also feel relatively comfortable wearing.
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I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency. Preaching won't keep youngsters out of trouble, but keeping their minds occupied will.
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'General Turquoise Blue?' asked Arthur. 'I didn't make Suzy a general, did I? I remember her talking about it, but I don't remember actually...' 'She probably just put on the uniform,' said Dr Scamandros. 'No one would question her.'
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Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds.
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Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
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Aspects that we consider normal today could very well be repugnant in the future - eating animals, for one thing, or abundant choice, or invasive surgery. I was simply trying to demonstrate that what is acceptable today may not be acceptable forever, and vice-versa.
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I feel kind of fortunate that over the last 25 years I've been in almost every Disney/Pixar film.
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I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Yvonne Rainier and the incredible Lynda Benglis. There were many women who were really driven and became successful, who were part of essential paradigm shifts, despite the fact that the art world was still dominated by men.
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You could stand near him, listen to him speak, and feel as if you were in the presence of some wiser man, a true mullah. His uncles were the same. Rich, powerful men whose influence allowed them to profit from the war, not fight in it.
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Everyone loves to be loved.
Mark Spitz
