Maurice Sendak Quotes
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R. C. Buford has been a huge help to me with his support.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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I would love to coach. I'm not saying I'm qualified to do it in the N.B.A., but I would love to try.
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AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
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I want to make sure that people know that I can only be myself - I can't be a spokesperson for people with disabilities, because everybody has a completely different experience. I'm glad that I'm able to inspire parents to see one way to deal with it, but at the same time, I tell a lot of dirty jokes.
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.
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You just want to keep playing consistently now and keep working hard and I'm sure the goals will come.
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I have no sense of being famous - you're just working. And then you'll have a random day in London when you'll do some press and it creeps into your awareness that this goes out - that what you do every day goes out to televisions right across the country.
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A big part of my decision is not made about whether I'm able to coach in the NHL or if I'm ready to step up and take that challenge. Basically, it's about my family, it's about my children, and this is where my decision is going to have to be made.
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These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
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I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.
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Now if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms comes to disarm you and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they're going to be wearing bulletproof vests. … They've got a big target on there, ATF. Don't shoot at that, because they've got a vest on underneath that. Head shots, head shots.... Kill the sons of bitches.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
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Justice, n. A commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.
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Logic and mathematics seem to be the only domains where self-evidence manages to rise above triviality; and this it does, in those domains, by a linking of self-evidence on to self-evidence in the chain reaction known as proof.
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Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend. We were the ones that worked with Saddam Hussein. The United States worked with bin Laden.
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I think that's what makes a great show: when the performers onstage aren't putting on a show, they're legitimately just having a freaking awesome time.
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You walk into the playgrounds in Shanghai and Beijing, and you see youngsters who are shorter, shaking and baking and having attitude. And Jeremy Lin is going to inspire all of them.
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So I will be on the mountain waiting Cause I am in need of more attention
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I think what I have is straightforwardness, unabashedness rather than charm.
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Our farmers feed the world. They are up before dawn and work till well after sunset. They face any number of challenges they can't control, from too much rain to not enough, from disease to insect infestations.
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When I go to bed at night and I think of humanity at large, I think of all those things.
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I'm an illustrator. I have to accept my role.
