Stephen Tobolowsky (Stephen Harold Tobolowsky) Quotes
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
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I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.
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I used to love to go to the movies - I'd see two in a row. A few times I even snuck into the second movie after it started... now that I think about it, that's kind of like shoplifting! Needless to say, I still love going to the movies, but I don't sneak in anymore.
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I maybe made some mistakes, but I'm only human. But, I'm man enough to face 'em today. What I did was stupid, no doubt it was dumb. But, the smartest shit I did was take the bullets out of that gun. Because I'd have killed them. Shit, I'd have shot Kim and them both. It's my life, I'd like to welcome you all to 'The Eminem Show'.
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And me I'm in the bathroomcrying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a manwhen you're scared, just like a little kid.
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I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.
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That's the worst way you can hear about comedy material: from a third person's blog story that they wrote when they were upset.
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Never assume you can't do something. Push yourself to redefine the boundaries.
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Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.
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My appeal to the rich is, Deal liberally with your poor brethren, and use your means to advance the cause of God. The worthy poor, who are made poor by misfortune and sickness, deserve your especial care and help.
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On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting.
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Doing gigs is great, but when you come together for a production in the theatre, that is something I have a lot of respect for.
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Five days after the Tsarnaev brothers blew up Boston's most sacred event, and just 24 hours after one brother was killed and the other was caught, everyone decided that it was OK to play baseball at Fenway again. The game happened on a Saturday afternoon, preceded by an emotional ceremony and many prayers.
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People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity.
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The Bible is not primarily a science book. It is not written to tell us how the heavens go; it is written to tell us how to go to heaven. But when it speaks on science, it is accurate.
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You can't beat life when you consider the alternatives.
