Maurice Sendak Quotes
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It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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I love Tom Kenny. And Jill Talley. And Jennifer Aniston, too!
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow.
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Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.
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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
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There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.
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I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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In the studio, there's no tiptoeing. As opposed to big, blow-out arguments, there are just lots of little solutions.
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If you want to stay fit, surround yourself with a couple of chicks who are fired up, so that the one day you're not, you can feed off their energy.
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Science is our last and greatest frontier.
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The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.
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Selflessness involves giving up your self. You become a martyr. Like the Hindu kamikaze warriors. These Japanese Hindus chose to give up their lives, and they were killed if they didn't. Imagine what their families felt. One day you have a father, and next, you're watching him fly a plane into a ship on Pearl Harbor on television. Those kids didn't do anything wrong. They just lived in an evil country. The axis of evil. That sort of evil is beyond anything you or I will experience in our lifetimes. So be glad. Be glad we live in the US of A. Be glad we get to choose, with our freedoms. Now get out there and fight!
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I'm probably one of the only people who has voted for the speaker of the House but didn't serve in Congress.
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Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
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My father belonged to a Jewish social club.
