Irena Sendler Quotes
People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter.
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
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In China, because Chinese is a tonal language, it can be kind of hard to follow people's emotional tracks. There was one moment where a woman I was interviewing just sort of burst into tears, and I can usually sort of tell when things are coming on, and in that moment, it was very unexpected.
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Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.
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One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
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Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that pretend to divine authorship, and each makes incompatible claims about how we all must live.
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I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.
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I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.
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I love helping friends, and I like to think I am a good listener and supportive. I'm also just kind of nosy, so it would satisfy my need to know other people's stories.
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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
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We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.
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You look at the NBA: there's all these young kids that are drafted on potential. They go to bad teams, they're in bad locker rooms, and now we got this analytics stuff that doesn't teach kids how to play. We've got these workout coaches that don't teach kids how to play basketball.
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Some people look for a certain structure in their lives that they're comfortable with. People who work hard on the road as truckers, people who work hard using their hands. Then there are people who are fortunate enough to have my life, people who play these characters who embody these qualities.
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I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know?
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Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.
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A president should look for what binds the people together rather than what drives them apart. As soon as you are identified with one side of the political map, you are no longer everybody's president.
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I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.
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If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.
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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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Intermarriage is not a calamity but an opportunity for both a Jewish and non-Jewish partner to learn.
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Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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When you're doing something where you really like the material, it doesn't matter what medium it's in.
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Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.
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When you're dead, everything in the world is like a song that makes you cry.
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People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter.
