Steven Shainberg Quotes
I'm almost exclusively interested in what happens behind closed doors, between people. The removal of their public face.
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Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
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There are a few players who don't like to think about the game.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
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I have the idea that anyone who has ever heard my name has the distinct impression that I was put under the sod years ago just before they buried Lillian Russell.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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Instead of locking people up and throwing away the key, it's important to invest in them and show them another way - show them what they can do, instead of telling them what they can't do. Because by investing in youth, we're investing into the future of this great nation of the United States of America.
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I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.
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I usually try to eat in my restaurants before I fly, as I'd rather sleep on the plane and just order a salad with cheese, maybe some ice cream.
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The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.
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The thing that's going to make artificial intelligence so powerful is its ability to learn, and the way AI learns is to look at human culture.
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I'm not a big one for lots of genitals flapping in the films.
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I love coming to India, and I find the people out here very warm and social as compared to people in the U.S.
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But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.
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Take charity work for example; the motivation of my various charitable activities is neither for fame nor profits. It is my sincere wish that, through my efforts, more people can realize how important it is to protect our planet and to start to act for a change.
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While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.
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If you want to make something happen in your life or career, well then you make and find the time. Simple as that.
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Don’t grieve for what doesn’t come. Some things that don’t happen keep disasters from happening.
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Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.
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I'm almost exclusively interested in what happens behind closed doors, between people. The removal of their public face.
