Maxwell Maltz Quotes
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.
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After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.
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I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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I personally don't think you should ever date someone you work with, will work with, etc. I won't ever date an actor.
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Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.
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The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.
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When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.
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Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
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I had my own motor boat which we would take to Khadakvasla, but that was 40 years ago.
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Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
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I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.
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As a brand new graduate student starting in October 1956, my supervisor Michail Fischberg, a lecturer in the Department of Zoology at Oxford, suggested that I should try to make somatic cell nuclear transplantation work in the South African frog Xenopus laevis.
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Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?
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Richard Wright, an American novelist of the realist school, asks a famous unfathomable question in his best-known novel, Native Son. Who knows when some slight shock, he asks, disturbing the delicate balance between social order and thirsty aspiration, shall send the skyscrapers in our cities toppling?
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The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble, like marriage, except by reason of death or other grave cause, might be a useful remedy for our contemporary evils. For this would force the investor to direct his mind to the long-term prospects and to those only.
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Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
