Dennis Prager Quotes
I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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I will do today what others won't so I can do tomorrow what others can't.
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Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
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I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
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Women are builders of civil society. We are the ones who are going to build it. You know why? We have no choice. Either you shut up, and you are humiliated, or you do what I'm doing. You scream.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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Dialogue is something I don't get a lot of on 'Game of Thrones.'
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For the strikers, we have more freedom, and even when we lose the ball, if we press together, we can get it back, and it is good system for Chelsea.
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I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.
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Social peace requires reciprocity.
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Heck, nobody gets along perfectly. But what we have is respect for one another. We have a system where one guy can veto anything.
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We have art in order not to die of the truth.
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I was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called 'Mr. Marmalade' after I graduated.
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My mom was born in Korea - Seoul, Korea, during the '50s, '51. She was abandoned; her and my uncle were abandoned. My grandfather was a Seabee and adopted my mom and my uncle, and brought them to Compton in the '50s. That's where she was raised.
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I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes.
