Gene Saks Quotes
Some of us shorten our names or our noses or both... We Jews can be extremely neurotic and are inclined to become easily depressed. Most Jews seldom say, 'Have a nice day' or even have one. To be honest, I've never heard a Jew say that. We're just not that optimistic. Life is neither a bed of roses nor a bowl of cherries.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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'Joy' to me is a reflection of the life experiences that I've had throughout the first record and kind of having some time and a hiatus. It's just like all of those experiences that I had during that period - that growing up period.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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Every actor wants to do a love story, and courtesy T-Series, I got to do two back-to-back.
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I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on his watch. If he had done what any moral human being should have done in the beginning, and put out alarms, then a lot fewer people would have gotten sick.
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Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
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I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.
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America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians.
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As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.
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I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
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Part of what makes America great is that we stand by the countries that share our values around the world. That's why throughout its history, the State of Israel has had no greater friend than the United States of America.
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Some of us shorten our names or our noses or both... We Jews can be extremely neurotic and are inclined to become easily depressed. Most Jews seldom say, 'Have a nice day' or even have one. To be honest, I've never heard a Jew say that. We're just not that optimistic. Life is neither a bed of roses nor a bowl of cherries.
