Joshua Waitzkin Quotes
Not only do we have to be good at waiting, we have to love it. Because waiting is not waiting, it is life.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
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I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. So if I'm playing basketball, if I'm taking the SATs, like, there's a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it's the same thing.
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What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.
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Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to get a glimmer of what this means.
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The deeps are cold:In that darkness camaraderie does not hold:Nothing touches but, clutching, devours.
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'The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...'
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I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.
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I'm not a particularly shiny, happy person. I'm fairly cynical, and that's what draws me to comedy.
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I partnered with Working Wardrobes because I wanted to be part of an organization that lifts people's spirits.
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I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I've been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.
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Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.
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I like to write and draw everything with sharpies. I even got one with my own name on it!
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I am a big fan of the web comic 'Strong Female Protagonist,' illustrated by Molly Ostertag.
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Illegal immigration continues to be a major problem in the United States. We have people waiting to come here legally. And we should not be rewarding people who have come here illegally.
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"Then we are living in a place abandoned by God," I said, disheartened. "Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?" William asked me, looking down from his great height.
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Annie Lee Moss was a black woman who worked for the Army as a code clerk in the Pentagon. She was identified by an undercover agent of the FBI as a member of the Communist Party. Moss denied it, the Democrats sprang to her defense, and she has been treated ever since as an innocent victim of McCarthy.
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Characters written in 1990 would be acting like idiots if they were cast into the present. For example, the reader might wonder: Why isn't she texting? Where's her cellphone? Can't she have a simple paternity test? For God's sake, look on the Internet and check him out!
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Everything mortal has moments immortal.
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Not only do we have to be good at waiting, we have to love it. Because waiting is not waiting, it is life.
