Eva Moskowitz Quotes
Sometimes when kids look like they're daydreaming, it's because they are, and we can't allow that possibility.
Quotes to Explore
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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.
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An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.
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The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.
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The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions, I should say - of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community.
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I don't know if I'm able to play a cop for the rest of my life.
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I have 18 cars, but I never had a Rolls-Royce.
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I have been listening a lot to The Carpenters and Neil Diamond, Elton John, and thinking, like, 'God, it'd be great to write a sort of subversive, alternative ballad,' like Lou Reed does so well with 'Perfect Day.' And I really loved 'Video Games' - at the time, it hadn't really got as big, but it's a classic song; you can't deny it.
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The house where I grew up in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles was like a dream - even though my family faced threats after my father bought it in August 1948.
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After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.
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Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes.
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There's a couple guys that I'd like to wrestle, but truthfully, I want to wrestle as many guys as I can.
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In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
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I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.
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At its core, the FCC's plan to regulate the Internet will force businesses and people to check first with the government and get permission to innovate.
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I always choose to remember the moment that was the best of Jeanne Cooper - those photos where she's in that wild dress triumphantly hoisting up the Emmy the night she finally won the damn thing. She was so proud, so happy.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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While I've never 'phoned in' a performance, I think I have given some performances where I could have been a bit braver.
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Sometimes when kids look like they're daydreaming, it's because they are, and we can't allow that possibility.
