Burt Shavitz Quotes
You've gotta do what you like to do. If you do things you don't like to do, what sense does it make?
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
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One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.
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Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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Certain cricketers are meant to play Test cricket.
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
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Cricket is a self-sustaining industry; but corporates need to realise that other sports don't have that luxury. This is the time when they need to invest, and keep the faith. Every sport has the potential to create world champions. Imagine India as a country full of world champions. Why imagine? Let's just make it happen.
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With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this way, I am staying in my professorial role; I'm writing teaching stories and teaching novels.
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I now understand how varied the world of cultivated rice is; that rice can play the lead or be a sidekick; that brown rice is as valuable as white; and that short-grain rice is the bee's knees.
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
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To fix India's healthcare scenario, what is most needed is 'systems thinking.' For far too long, India has followed a vertical approach in its health sector, which translated into disease-specific national programmes being set up.
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And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.
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AIDS respects no national boundaries; spares no race or religion; devastates men and women, rich and poor. No country can ignore this crisis. Fighting AIDS is an urgent calling - because every life, in every land, has value and dignity.
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Georg Cantor claimed the essence of mathematics lies in its freedom. But mathematicians do not pick problems from thin air for the pleasure of solving them. To the contrary, a mark of greatness resides in the ability to identify the most interesting problems in the framework of what is already known.
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The Germans told me 'We're going to conquer the world!' and I don't regret working with a German record company at all, because for my career it was great, but they wanted to control me, direct me and restrict me. They wanted absolute discipline and that's not the life for me, so after a few years of that I wanted out.
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'Believe nothing,' Apolline advised. 'This woman wouldn’t know the truth if it fucked her.'
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One can only call that youth healthful which refuses to be reconciled to old ways and which, foolishly or shrewdly, combats the old. This is nature’s charge and all progress hinges upon it.
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I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.
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I'm super down with being irresponsible. I'm just trying to make sure my lack of responsibility no longer hurts people.
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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
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My life is an open book. There is nothing to hide here.
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Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie.
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You've gotta do what you like to do. If you do things you don't like to do, what sense does it make?
