Paul Fleischman Quotes
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat's Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous.
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I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.
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The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don't fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.
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Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.
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If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
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Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?
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You have a guy like Bernie Madoff literally steal $80 billion, you know, AIG steal hundreds of billions, Goldman Sachs. Crime has changed so much, and to really do a movie with, like, drug dealers or drug smugglers is kind of almost quaint at this point.
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There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you get to your desk, you stay there, you work, you think of nothing else. You write and you write, and in the end, you write something good.
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Every generation finds the drug it needs.
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Decisions of this Court do not have intrinsic authority.
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Vacant heart, and hand, and eye,Easy live and quiet die.
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Ricky: You are the strangest man alive.
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Those who derive satisfaction by perpetuating pain in others will probably not stop their tirade against me. I do not expect them to. But, I pray in all humility, that they at least now stop irresponsibly maligning the 6 crore people of Gujarat.
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Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that's not true.
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Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.
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The few words of a title are the hardest words for any author to come up with.
