Jim Lehrer Quotes
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It takes madness to find out madness.
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I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
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Sometimes you design a shoe, and you think this one is a winner, but you never know when something will be such a crazy phenomenon.
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We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.
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My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
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What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.
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I grew up in Florida riding horses, so for the majority of my life I was either in boots and jeans or a bathing suit.
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I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.
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Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom.
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The Hungarian interest is that, if necessary, we should make loan agreements with the IMF on a regular basis.
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I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It's really cool. I get a lot from inmates, which is kind of scary. But the best was the guy who wanted to send me a plane ticket to fly me to his prom.
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In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
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I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
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Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.
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I studied really, really hard, rather boringly.
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Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.
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The fashion consumer likes a high-low mix - I want to be a brand that represents that.
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The gospel stands as true for those who reject it as for those who accept it - both will be judged by it.
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I'm in the reporting part of journalism.
