Gary Weiss Quotes
In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
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I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.
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Proust is a huge author for me.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
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Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.
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If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
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Society is going to judge you anyway, so do whatever you want to do.... No guts no glory.
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The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
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I think I exist, therefore I exist. I think.
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Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
