Sargent Shriver Quotes
My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'
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A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.
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I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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It's kinda me and Jon Stewart have a pact together – so he's making me famous in the Western world and I'm making him famous in Egypt!
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I used to get so many nasty comments when I cut my hair short, and it upset me.
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U.S. is a merit-based society... There is no glass ceiling if you have good performance track record and leadership skills.
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I just told them no one's going to jump with me. I told them I thought the play would work. I gave input and he listened and we were able to make a play.
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I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.
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One of my graduate school professors, to whom I started sending poems when I started writing again after a 10-year hiatus, suggested I prepare a book manuscript which he could send to publishers for me.
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My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.
