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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We've heard some theories, but there is a lot of mystery surrounding my adoption.
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I go through the arc of a relationship with every single painting that I do.
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I look for what's of value and extract that. I don't look to criticize.
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I am a film buff.
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If you're sick, first you have to associate your sickness with a food. Then you have to report it to your doctor. Then the doctor reports it to some state authority. The state authority reports it to the federal authority. By the time all that happens, two weeks have gone by.
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I'm sick of 'Wild Things.'
