Estelle Parsons Quotes
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.
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We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.
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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
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I'm from the north, so I'm anti-Thatcher.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job? Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
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Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17.
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Negative politics have always been around.
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I'm tall and thin but not strong, so you're either an athlete or you're funny.
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My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.
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I've always liked fashion but maybe not to the point that I was so sick about it that I wanted to draw my own things.
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I'm not sure it's a better music world of appreciation and performance. I think the listener is a different guy, and listening is something he does in passing, with other stuff going on. There's less care and understanding of the relationship between the song and the listener.
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Gary Smith, when I came to America, taught me a great deal about racing.
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That should be our test regarding immigrants. Those who come to America to tear it down or live off of others should not be welcomed.
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I think America may be growing up and accepting the fact that the bulk of life exists beyond 50. Because demographically... the vast population is over 50.
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At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.
