Gene Weingarten Quotes
I felt like I was never going to be a great writer. I felt like I was going to be a good writer at best. I wanted to be great at something.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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In his enigmatic and cunning story 'The Crown of Feathers,' Isaac Bashevis Singer refuses to produce uncontradictory evidence of God's will but rather mixes all signals, jams the evidence, stalls every conclusion.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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We are very committed to putting forward a really bold message for the state of Colorado.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.
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Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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If I had known what it would be like to have it all... I might have been willing to settle for less.
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Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
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I created my lane. No one can ever run my lane because it's mine. I'm the Michael Jackson of my lane. And you know, nobody was as great as Michael. I love Prince, but he's not Michael.
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No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
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I always have lipstick, and use the same lipstick for my cheeks as blush, so that it looks very natural. It's a good trick I learned from my mother. I like NYX or MAC because they have a lot of pigment and they're matte.
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I felt like I was never going to be a great writer. I felt like I was going to be a good writer at best. I wanted to be great at something.
