Joseph Wapner Quotes
I was the only Jew who'd ever been elected, and I don't know when there'll be another.
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I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.
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It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.
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One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
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I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.
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The tabernacle of unity hath been raised; regard ye not one another as strangers.
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He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
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I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.
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Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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I don't know any member of Congress who ever said, 'I'm satisfied with the communication that we have from the White House.'
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From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule.
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I know there is a bounty on my head, such as there is with many other leaders and protesters.
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I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.
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In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to what we know and, where we aren't absolutely sure, what might be most likely to have happened, within the generally accepted rules of evidence and sources.
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There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our 21st century America.
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As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.
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I don't know what drives me, I don't have a clue, but I'm driven more today than I ever have been.
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You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
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They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.
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Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.
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I was the only Jew who'd ever been elected, and I don't know when there'll be another.
