Dennis Prager Quotes
People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.
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We're seeing a crazy appetite for people to acquire and invest in British businesses.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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I'm not a sun person.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
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The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends upon. Indiscriminate commercial fishing practices that include miles of driftnets, long lines with thousands of lethal hooks and bottom trawls are ruining ocean ecosystems by killing non-seafood species, including sea turtles and marine mammals.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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I try to meditate.
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It's never my intent to be controversial but I don't shy away from it.
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I didn't read much SF as a kid - I was a total Tolkien geek - but I started reading Samuel Delany and Angela Carter and Ursula LeGuin in high school, and I was definitely taken with the notion that here was a literature that could explore various notions of gender identity and how it affects the culture at large.
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A lot of time, I'd spell things in standard English instead of phonetically because I want people to understand what's going on. It's also very lyrical, and the great thing about lyrical prose is even when you're not totally sure of the words, you can be swayed by the musicality of it.
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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
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People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.
