Steven Wright (Steven Alexander Wright) Quotes
I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.
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No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.
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I travel regularly and have learnt to be very methodical as far as packing is concerned. For example, I always check the weather in advance of where I'm going to ensure that I've packed the right clothes.
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
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Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
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In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.
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What agent is there other than the Creator of the heavens and earth who can know whatever occurs in our heart, down to its most subtle and secret thoughts, and illuminate the future for us by establishing the Hereafter, saving us from the countless suffocating waves of the world?
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I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.
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I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.
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I gravitate to whatever looks good on me and whatever maakes me feel sexy.
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Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should have the same rights. The American spirit of fair play had been invoked.
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I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.
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No process of reform will succeed without national reconciliation. ... National reconciliation will take time, but for the sake of our common humanity, and for the sake of this country’s future, it is necessary to stop incitement and to stop violence.
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Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferunt.
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A photograph can express silence.
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Rouse the lion from his lair.
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Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists.
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I read and enjoy just about anything I can get my hands on.
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I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.
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The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.
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I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
