Sol Hurok Quotes
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
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Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
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Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.
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I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
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We are determined to improve the economic environment by getting foreign investors in and by cutting red tape.
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I've got a great relationship with my dad, but I can imagine how annoying it would be if I had to move back into his house.
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The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.
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The demons are innumerable, appear at the most inconvenient times, and create panic and terror. But I have learnt that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage.
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I haven't always felt it was okay to read romance novels. When I was younger, it embarrassed me to be seen with my books, but I've come out of the closet.
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There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.
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It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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I speak for all Malaysians in expressing my admiration for the Queen and the grace, poise and selflessness with which she has carried out her duties during her long reign. She represents the very best of British traits: dignity, resilience and hard work.
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The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
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Sometimes I write well when I'm very upset.
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I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.
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The sky's the limit if you have a roof over your head.
