Maurice Sendak Quotes
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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I have fallen in love so many times. If one relationship ended, I would search for another girl. I was always madly in love with all the girls that I dated.
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I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.
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What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
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The optimal use of natural resources can be made only if there is a well-thought-out policy framework for their exploitation towards a particular end use.
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I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.
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I love showing my scar on my tummy - it is shaped like a question mark.
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I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.
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I'm going through life's cycles at an alarmingly fast pace, but my persona has a Peter Pan quality: he doesn't age.
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When you're shooting, there's terrible pressure, and you never switch off. Every day is like the day before an exam; it's relentless.
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If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.
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I'm just tryna be honest about all the things that I dig in my music. It's not just this over here, it's also that over there.
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I stress character, character, character.
