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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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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Doing nothing makes us crazy. But freedom comes when you don't have to work.
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Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
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Never explain, never complain.
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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.
