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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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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There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country.
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Bruce Lee has always been a hero of mine, and the choreography in 'Enter The Dragon' is amazing.
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My father was a very big musical influence on me. He was a trumpet player. And that's what I started with. Then, when I was 7, my parents introduced me to the piano.
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You come to Washington, there's a rail bill, there's a highway bill, there's a aviation bill. But when you go home, there's an airport, there's a highway, there's a rail, there's transit. It all has to work together.
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The East Coast, and certainly Boston, has a provincial quality to it that makes it harder to bust out and move up. Try to be too different and they'll pull you down.
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'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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The fiber-collagen meshwork looked virtually identical to these so-called 'proto-feathers' found in the Chinese dinosaurs.
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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.
