Gary Weiss Quotes
People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man.' It is his masterwork - it won the National Book Award in 1953 and catapulted my man to the highest levels of literary esteem.
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I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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I don't drink coffee.
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Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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I'm a pretty nice dude. I have fun, and people take it the wrong way.
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I don't want security guards. I don't think security guards are particularly good for your writing.
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If you want to take what I've learned and use it to your advantage, just listen and you won't have to go through it.
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I don't have assistants and things in the studio.
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I would not want to write something about something I do not think about.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
