Joel Grey Quotes
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.
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After 'Roe v. Wade' - when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 - I thought the national conversation about abortion and birth control would be over. It was not.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.
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As a child, I had the opportunity to meet the captain onboard a British Airways flight. It was so exciting to see the cockpit and controls. I was in awe of the captain, and he stamped my log book, which I still have to this day.
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I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' since I was ten.
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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
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When you're a mom and you have three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.
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Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest.
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The Chanel woman is slender, sophisticated and chic.
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If you make a really good product that people want and are willing to pay for, money will come.
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If they want to criticize me, I don't care; I don't mind. But they must criticize me fairly. Usually, the criticism is not fair. Or the praise, even the praise sometimes is not fair.
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Pictures of Amazons on vase paintings always show them as beautiful, active, spirited, courageous, and brave.
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The most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.
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There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature
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No, no I'm not, no, but I just think... when people are naked it tells you a lot about their relationships.
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I don't look like Brad Pitt.
