E. Y. Harburg Quotes
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.
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A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.
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I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
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When we think about the past, we think, 'It must have been so boring.' It's actually not.
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Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball, and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
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Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.
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I'm a pretty emotional person.
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Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.
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Economics is not an exact science.
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Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.
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Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.
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You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal.
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There ought to be a law against necessity.
