Stephen Greenblatt (Stephen Jay Greenblatt) Quotes
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The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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Whatever I have done so far has led me to 'Kaabil.' It is a big opportunity for me to establish myself more commercially. It is a huge platform.
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When you've got children, it's easy to do that thing of keeping a tally of who woke up earliest and whose turn it is to put them to bed. But I think the important thing is to appreciate and love each other and to show that appreciation.
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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In some ways, the best novel about terrorism, though it's not a novel, is 'The Looming Tower' by Lawrence Wright or 'Perfect Soldiers' by Terry McDermott.
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The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.
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Seattle sucks. New York and Chicago are real cities. Seattle is Dubuque, Iowa, putting on airs. People here think Seattle is Paris... it ain't. I've been to Paris, and this place isn't Paris.
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I certainly want to continue to be a role model. But I don't think it's necessarily about being a female in our business. I think it's about... my track record, my results.
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After 'Click, Clack, Moo' was published, I was still practicing law and had no plans to make a career change.
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I have always felt an excellent rapport ever since my very first concert in Britain at Hampton Court. I have always felt understood. The British understand opera very well.
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Once you start worrying, it's hard to stop.
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Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.
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I still haven't made a film that defines who I am.
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The reason that people in the intellectual community argue that football is dangerous is because there's now a large swath of society that has no relationship to physicality or potential violence.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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I am much more productive late at night because I have no one to look to for entertainment aside from myself.
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I'm a Broadway baby! So, therefore, I started in the theater.
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I guess I don't know if I'm comfortable with fame or touring or promo or any of that stuff, and I really discovered that I love working for people and co-writing and working under someone.
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No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.
