Jason Alexander Quotes
We see and hear about Israelis and Palestinians only when they are defined by the global media as 'occupiers,' 'terrorists,' and 'victims.' But we forget that they are fathers and mothers and sons and daughters and neighbors and doctors and shop-owners and farmers and students.
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You'll never get rich by working for your boss.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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I remember walking into drugstores when I was younger and seeing all the hair color boxes on the shelves and just being so in awe. Having the control to dye your hair and change your look is such a part of self-expression.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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I didn't have many girlfriends in my youth. I was an active young man, jumping from one girl to the next, but never with anyone for more than three or four months.
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If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
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I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'
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People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.
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Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
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It's very difficult to balance different audiences and talk to each one without selling the others short. There is no universal literature - or, if there is, I don't know how to write it.
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When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.
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There is some big thing about the world that produced all these people willing to kill themselves just to hurt us. On 9/11 we learned we're part of that world, in the same completely crazy, drastic and arbitrary ways it hits other countries.
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And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.
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My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.
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My view is that at a certain age - and we can debate whether that age is 70-72 or 75 - members need to step off boards. As per the banking guidelines, that age for the director on a board today is 70.
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I think that something needs to be weird in order to have a real beauty.
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There was a major restoration programme initiated by Lord Curzon. His efforts at the Taj Mahal have had a mixed reception. They are often judged to be largely benign, and they even received complimentary accolades from Jawaharlal Nehru. Post-colonial critics of the Raj have predictably been less willing to exonerate this exemplar of aristocracy.
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Follow your heart's truth with no need for personal gain other than the feeling produced when doing what you truly love.
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When we worship God as we ought that's when the nations listen.
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Legally speaking, the term 'public rights' is as vague and indefinite as are the terms 'public health,' 'public good,' 'public welfare,' and the like. It has no legal meaning, except when used to describe the separate, private, individual rights of a greater or less number of individuals.
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We see and hear about Israelis and Palestinians only when they are defined by the global media as 'occupiers,' 'terrorists,' and 'victims.' But we forget that they are fathers and mothers and sons and daughters and neighbors and doctors and shop-owners and farmers and students.
