Emanuel Celler Quotes
People were hurt, and because they were hurt, they were angry and quarreled and were jealous of one another.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
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Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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I'm an actress, not a pinup.
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There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.
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What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
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In the '80s, it was difficult and frustrating to appear in the theater and TV again, even though I had some successful shows and hit records. Now, I have to say, the '90s are the best decade of my life. I've done the best work and, in a funny way, I'm enjoying the most success... more than in the '70s.
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A holy relationship is where the brokenness and wounds of the world are not escaped so much as as transformed by love, not hidden from but risen above.
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People were hurt, and because they were hurt, they were angry and quarreled and were jealous of one another.
