Paul Schneider Quotes
Sometimes if you've got a story that's interesting enough, you don't need to pour sugar on ice cream. The ice cream is great.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.
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All the things that are in the past are in the past.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don't believe globalisation is bad. It's criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity.
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Before 'This is Our Youth', I did a week of table reading 'Airline Highway' at Steppenwolf in Chicago while the author, Lisa D'Amour, workshopped it.
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It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
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I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.
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Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.
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Working on 'Big Give' was an opportunity that I felt compelled to do. It was my chance to share in showing people how they can give big in their own life, to send the message that giving goes way beyond the gift of money. We want to share that the best thing you can give is your time and understanding.
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So we listen. We add up associations of people with people. When a push against Scientology starts somewhere, we go over the people involved and weed them out. Push vanishes.
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Mental silence is the perfect response to a challenge.
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We are not going to sit idly by and permit state actors to go after our information, our private-sector information or our public-sector information.
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In child rearing environment is equally essential with heredity.
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Women – love each other, support each other, defend each other. It comes at a greater cost to you to attack the women around you than it does to empower them.
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I feel like I'll always be a brunette, that's just who I am, but I love that I can switch it up and be whatever I want to be.
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I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.
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To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.
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Sometimes if you've got a story that's interesting enough, you don't need to pour sugar on ice cream. The ice cream is great.
