Harry Houdini Quotes
I always have on my mind the thought that next year I must do something greater, something more wonderful.
Quotes to Explore
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My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.
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Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
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We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.
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No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.
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I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
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I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing.
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I'm not really the sex symbol type.
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For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects.
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A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.
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I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am.
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I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.
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There are unfortunately not a few good professional physicists who still think about the world as if space and time had an absolute meaning.
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
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I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era.
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Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who can't write their own language.
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Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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Nothing is new except arrangement.
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Love's secret is to be always doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such little ones.
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I always have on my mind the thought that next year I must do something greater, something more wonderful.
