Philip Roth Quotes
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There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics.
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My hunger is always there.
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.
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It's strong to be vulnerable. To be able to communicate with other women is one of the most powerful things.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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I'm an emotional person.
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My earliest memories of horror are 'Friday the 13th Part 2,' John Carpenter's 'The Thing,' 'Halloween,' 'An American Werewolf in London,' and 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'... and 'Hatchet' is so obviously inspired by those films that I may as well have made it in 1984.
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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.
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Ben Henderson, he had never been knocked out before fighting me.
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Right now I own shares of companies in 28 countries.
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I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'
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I don't trust what this life has given me.
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Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
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Should he ever write an autobiography, he'd call it The Life and Death of a Male Body.
