Maurice Sendak Quotes
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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Tech companies tend to do tech best.
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We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master' of a cat? We own a dog - he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him to be. But we entertain a cat - he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger, and equal because he wishes to be there.
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
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When I was younger, I did lots of plays, put on shows for Mum and Dad, made my brother dress up in ridiculous tutus and whatnot to perform in front of them. I think my pre-primary report was like, 'Has a flair for drama' - it was just a little side note.
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Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel'? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.
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In my eyes, a patriot is little more than an international blackleg.
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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
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I don't think me calling House Republican members would have been that helpful. I tend not to be that persuasive on that side of the aisle.
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Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all. We disregard them, we say they forget, because they have not the words to make us remember.
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Evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's leaders to lay down their arms. To say that force may sometimes be necessary is not a call to cynicism - it is a recognition of history; the imperfections of man and the limits of reason.
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I feel so blessed to do what I do, but there's nothing in the world better than watching your child succeed.
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I'm sick of dour faces Staring at me from the T.V. Tower. I want roses in my garden bower; dig?
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I don't really like hospitals that much. People are sick; sometimes it can be depressing. There's people going through a lot of pain in there. It has that funny smell.
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When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.
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I'm sick of 'Wild Things.'
