Mattie Stepanek Quotes
Wars should be fought with words, not bombs, not weapons. And calm words. I think that wars should be fought over a chessboard and a cup of something to drink.
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I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.
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Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat's Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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If there is no threat to the lives of the citizens, our tactic will be to not intervene or impede members of the protest in expressing their will freely.
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
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Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?
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Habit is the nursery of errors.
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I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me, I'm not quite alive.
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I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press.
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Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.
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Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
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May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
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Wars should be fought with words, not bombs, not weapons. And calm words. I think that wars should be fought over a chessboard and a cup of something to drink.
