Isaac Stern Quotes
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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Dormer by name, Dormer by nature: I love to sleep.
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As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.
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It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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You get more insight as you get older, on everything.
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From caring comes courage.
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I love taking chances.
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I'm hoping I'll eventually get to be a beauty blogger myself because I do my own makeup, and I have for years.
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With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.
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All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
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I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
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While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.
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In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.
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Lunch was my favorite part at school.
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She [Carolyn Maloney] knows the financial issues, that's why we thought she was perfect because we're in a - we're in, as you know, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, and I know that she'll see the whole picture.
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I remember going up and doing 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' with Paul Simon, Santana playing up there with us.
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Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.
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An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.
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A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.
