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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Kids are our future, and we hope baseball has given them some idea of what it is to live together and how we can get along, whether you be black or white.
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For everyday diners in Manhattan, cracking the waiting list at Nobu is said to be harder than getting courtside tickets for the Knicks.
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But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society.
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The income tax has spawned an intrusive bureaucracy, creating so much complexity and red tape that millions of ordinary citizens have to go get some accountant to fill out the forms for them - and then sign under penalty of perjury that it was done right. If you knew how to do it right, you wouldn't have to go to somebody else to have it done, would you?
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I don't look like Brad Pitt.