Eugene Shvidler Quotes
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Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?
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My favorite word was a word James Lapine used repeatedly in 'Sunday in the Park with George,' which was the word 'connect.' All I want to do is connect.
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Wagner is contrapuntal in a philosophical way as well as a musical way. What I mean by that is that every tendency has its opposite, and you see that in the man himself. He's a metaphysical hermaphrodite - he embraces hard and soft, masculine and feminine.
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I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.
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The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
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'Harat' is actually - it's a Lebanese dialect word. It comes from 'the mapmaker,' somebody who makes a map. And it basically means somebody who tells fibs or exaggerate tales a little bit.
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I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.
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I don't have a Twitter or a Facebook, but that doesn't mean I'm any more productive than the rest of the world.
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If I've got Writer's Block it generally means that I don't have that much to say or something's not quite connecting. I have had Writer's Block a bunch of times and it's generally because I'm not able to write down what I'm feeling basically. Mostly, I just need to be alone really, or be with someone who can bring that out of me.
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A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.
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I was in a garden at the Rodin Museum. For a few minutes I was alone, sitting on a bench between two long hedges of roses. Pink roses. Suddenly I felt the most powerful feeling of peace, and I had the thought that death, if it means an absorption into a reality like the one that was before me, might be all right.
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I am so smart! I am so smart! S-M-A-R-T! I mean, S-M-A-R-T!
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For most of us, dreams come true only after they do not matter, Only in childhood do we ever have the chance of making dreams come true when they mean everything.
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I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!
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This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other. It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn't mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.
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And with iPods and iPads, and Xboxes and PlayStations - none of which I know how to work - information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.
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We have to create that bridge for the future. And that means making sure we're paying attention to the wages of workers in countries, making sure that we're investing in their education and their skills.
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By suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. Take Time to listen and talk about the voices of the earth and what they mean-the majestic voice of thunder, the winds, the sound of surf or flowing streams.
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The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.
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That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.
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Oligarch is just a nonsense word. What does it mean? I don't like it.
