Walt Mossberg Quotes
I'm well aware that the Internet is global and can't be wholly affected by any one country. But the United States has outsized influence.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.
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I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.
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The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
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Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words.
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The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.
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The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a family's income. Because of rising housing costs and stagnant wages, slightly more than half of all poor renting families in the country spend more than 50 percent of their income on housing costs, and at least one in four spends more than 70 percent.
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Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day.
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I have a wonderful piano that I really love: a handmade Yamaha grand. Sometimes I'm sitting there, and it sounds so good that I find some little melody or a phrase that leads me into a song, but probably more often than not, I actually grab a notebook.
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I'm well aware that the Internet is global and can't be wholly affected by any one country. But the United States has outsized influence.
