David Steinberg Quotes
The one thing an audience always has in common with a comedian is troubles. The Yiddish word for that is tsuris. You're always putting your tsuris on stage whether you like it or not. No one is untroubled, unless they're just, you know, an imbecile.
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I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
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If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, which is 15 elementary schools in the Twin Cities.
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One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.
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I've just always been a bit of a dork.
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I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.
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I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
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Putin is like Al Capone.
Garry Kasparov -
In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima.
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I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.
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For a gymnast to be successful, she needs to strike a balance of everything within herself. She needs to be graceful, flexible, perform all elements, turns, maintain co-ordination - she has to have all of that. If, for example, she only has co-ordination and nothing else, she will not succeed.
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Even the dark places are places. You're still somewhere.
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In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.
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Dogma and hierarchy are endemic to such structures...indeed, such are the structures of any theocracy.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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I want people to feel happy when they wear my shoes.
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The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the most active intellectual life.
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The one thing an audience always has in common with a comedian is troubles. The Yiddish word for that is tsuris. You're always putting your tsuris on stage whether you like it or not. No one is untroubled, unless they're just, you know, an imbecile.
