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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I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.
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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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All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
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There are three or four places in the country where people think of fashion: One is L.A., obviously. Another is New York. And I think Atlanta has to be in the top five cities where fashion is very big.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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I'm not interested in being Franchise Boy.
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But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.
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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.
