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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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go.
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Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder.
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'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
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If you have done well in whatever business you are in, it is your duty to send the elevator back down and try to help bring up the next generation of undiscovered talent.
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A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.
