Maury Yeston Quotes
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.
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One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.
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In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
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I have to satisfy my audience.
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I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.
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The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that's happening - and yet there's no further legislation taking place, it's very frustrating and upsetting.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
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Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
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Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is always let it keep rolling.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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We don't work with anyone.
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Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.
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Musical theatre is now a worldwide conversation.
