Eva Moskowitz Quotes
Any elected official who asks to visit my schools is welcome to do so; there is no political litmus test.
Quotes to Explore
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The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
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A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen.
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I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.
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I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.
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The CWC is a professional organization for professional writers. Non-published writers are welcome as associate members.
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The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.
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If I am elected president we will secure the border and we will end the illegal immigration.
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The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
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I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka... and welcome to my chocolate factory.
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The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
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When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the debriefing. You don't keep something to yourself.
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If elected, I will win.
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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
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The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white.
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As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don't want to be spoken down to. I want to be treated as a peer and to be made to feel welcome.
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.
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When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.
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Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.
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I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part.
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I always wanted to say I came out of the cornfields and got to the major leagues. That was my biggest thought. But now I can say I came out of the cornfields and got to the Hall of Fame.
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Any elected official who asks to visit my schools is welcome to do so; there is no political litmus test.
