Steven Wright (Steven Alexander Wright) Quotes
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In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.
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I'm loyal. I'm real. I'm not afraid to say what I'm thinking.
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Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.
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It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.
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To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
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I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
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You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
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I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.
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I'm not afraid of problem-solving. There is always a way.
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Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
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Never be afraid of not knowing. Find out.
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.
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For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me.
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We are afraid that we have not lived. We are not afraid of dying.
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Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.
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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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If you are afraid of changes Watch from a distance Whether or not I might do something If you're going to talk about me behind my back It is what it is.
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If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and will use his brains and energy, not to explore the unknown, but to find ways to avoid the pressures we put on him.
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I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records.
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The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.
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Maybe it was true, and being a girl could be about interest rates and skinny jeans, riding bikes and wearing pink. Not about any one thing, but everything.
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Even when I wrote Basic myself the day before I burned it into a computer I wasn't making design changes. I didn't have a testing team. I did all the testing myself. And there was no project methodology or schedule that, there was the notion of coming to a close means testing a lot at the end and making very few changes.
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A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.
