Eva Moskowitz Quotes
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The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops. I always walk across the street and go somewhere else. Imagine if one of them came out with their face all pale and said, 'Hurry up and enjoy yourself.' No one wants to know that.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
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People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
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I'm constantly amazed that owners and managers of all businesses don't train their people to call the person who pays by credit card by name. It definitely makes the customer feel good and will be a factor in bringing them back to your place of business.
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He was a very strict father, which in a way has helped me to become who I am today. He never pampered me, as he wanted me to live a normal life. No film magazines were allowed at home, and we weren't allowed to watch any movies.
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The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.
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I remember watching William Hartnell as the first 'Doctor.' Black and white made it very scary for a youngster like myself. I was petrified, but even though I'd watch most of it from behind the sofa through my fingers, I became a fan.
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It's a crazy world, stardom. I don't even think of myself as a star. I just like to go to work.
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The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as more recent attacks in Madrid, Spain, and London, England, showed in a very tragic way just how vulnerable many areas of the world are to these sorts of actions.
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It was not that I disliked people; some of them were interesting and kind. But even the nice ones were no more compelling or important to me than other creatures. Then, as now, to me humans are but one species among billions of other equally vivid and thrilling lives. I was never drawn to other children simply because they were human. Humans seemed to me a rather bullying species, and I was on the side of the underdog.
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As a parent, you have to be good coach and bad coach, and I think in the college-application process, I didn't want to be bad coach. 'This is amazing! I'm so proud of you!' That's the role I wanted with my kids.
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I didn't design schools for poor kids. I'm designing schools to be world-class.
