Haskell Wexler Quotes
My mother let me know that we're all connected. If some of us become more affluent it's not because we're better or even smarter people - we have a responsibility to ourselves to be a good boy.
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I discovered television is a great way to deal with the chaos of new motherhood. I would put the babies to bed and get lost in a trashy reality show.
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I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don't do it every day. I got used to the language, and some of it got to be repetitive language, so you build your vocabulary.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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I don't care about revenues.
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I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.
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Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
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I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.
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My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.'
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I want to be in love with what I do at all times, and I want to stay in love.
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In Peru, if you gave somebody a little chance to do something, they took it to the furthest extent. They took nothing for granted. And here in L.A., you kind of get caught up in your own little dilemmas and your own little life.
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The High-Intelligence Life Forms of the planet, of which there were at least three species, all of low technological achievement, they would ignore or enslave or extirpate, whichever was most convenient. For to an aggressive people only technology mattered.
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Sinatra with a cold is Picasso without paint, Ferrari without fuel - only worse.
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'We are not a debating club,' Franklin said. 'Our goal is to get at the truth, where that is possible.'
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Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.
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I don't have muscle tone. I'm just flab. I'm not a daredevil. I don't like pain, I don't like cold, I don't want to feel exhausted. But the sense of accomplishment is something I've never felt before, in a physical sense.
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There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country.
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But, you know, once you're in government, very often you need to shoulder responsibility. I hope the new Spanish government will think about this and will therefore act accordingly. I really and sincerely hope so.
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I think these large bureaucratic institutions are created in some way explicitly to inoculate anyone from actual responsibility, to create a much more diffuse and blameless kind of society.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
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There’s a ghost of a dream that you don’t even try to shake free off because you’re too in love with the way she haunts you.
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My mother let me know that we're all connected. If some of us become more affluent it's not because we're better or even smarter people - we have a responsibility to ourselves to be a good boy.
