Joel Grey Quotes
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I've got good speed off the edge.
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You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
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Originally, we had a band known as Steely Dan. As we moved away from the band, we got whoever was appropriate for specific tunes. In a lot of cases, we gravitated toward jazz players who had more sophisticated harmonic concepts.
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Often they benefit who suffer wrong.
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Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
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To me, emails are a little bit frustrating. I think that the telephone is much preferred because you get the sound of the voice and the interest and everything else you can't see in an email.
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I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.
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The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
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The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with base notes, or dark lake with the treble.
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The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator.
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There was nothing he could do unless he accepted what was real.
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Slavery in this Country I have seen hanging over it like a black cloud for half a century…
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The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
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My dream collaboration would be with someone like Bjork, Kate Bush, or even Dionne Warwick.
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This drawing is three quarters ball, one quarter philosopher, which might be about the right space to keep a philosopher in his place.
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Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time.
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In order to arrive to a more realistic view of society, it must be recognized that there are individual differences that cannot be eradicated by the most rigid curriculum, and that various individuals will choose different educational curricula if allowed to do so.
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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived—forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward- looking position.
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I really do enjoy everything I do. I just do so much.
