Isaac Mayer Wise Quotes
Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.
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I'm tired of the speculation about my personal life.
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I remember doing my mosaics or being in my little hiding place behind the couch snooping. I'd get bored sometimes, of course, but I think that's good for a kid, because it forces you to be creative.
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A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.
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The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.
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In the dressing room, we've just made it really Zen: low lighting, lots of candles, and fresh, healthy food.
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I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.
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I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.
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Somehow it just don't seem fittin' for a bridegroom to spend his weddin' night in a tree.
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No negotiation is ever possible if you have to negotiate not only with the people in the room but also with some other committee in permanent session.
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So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.
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So long as one person remembers you, you'll never really be dead.
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Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy.
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Jesus loves sinners. He only loves sinners. He has never turned anyone away who came to Him for forgiveness, and He died on the cross for sinners, not for respectable people.
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The loss of a job may be the wake up-call needed to redeem the fire of your genius.
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We need workfare over welfare.
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The public still repeats, time after time, the silly story that at Wannsee the extermination of the Jews was arrived at.
