Naomi Weisstein Quotes
Why have they been telling us women lately that we have no sense of humor -- when we are always laughing? . . . and when we're not laughing, we're smiling.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.
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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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We expect 'Narcos' will be an enormous success throughout everywhere in the world and maybe out-index in Latin America, given the Brazilian star and Brazilian director and heavy Latin American cast and that we shot the show entirely on location in Colombia.
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I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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I like to roller skate. I have been roller skating since I was eight.
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Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
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An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
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I always have to be writing.
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I am not the kind of director who sits in a chair smoking a cigar talking with a microphone to 10 assistants. I need to move. To touch. To put a painting on a wall. To arrange a set.
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The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind.
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Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.
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When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top of the Empire State Building, you do feel sorry for him.
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I was not afraid of the press or the militants. It was uncomfortable, but I was not afraid. With respect to the press, I knew I knew more than they knew about city matters. With respect to the militants, I understood it. I mean, everybody believed in those days that they were being screwed, you know, that somebody was getting ahead of them.
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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
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You can't take good health for granted.
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Everything you do to improve your physical well-being will have a positive impact on how good you feel about yourself.
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The fact that you touched somebody's soul or made them laugh-that's a wonderful thing.
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Why have they been telling us women lately that we have no sense of humor -- when we are always laughing? . . . and when we're not laughing, we're smiling.
