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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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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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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There is a difference between not understanding and being willfully obtuse.
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I can't stand Paris. I hate the place. Full of people talking French, which is a thing I bar. It always seems to me so affected.
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So this is my effort to bring back the hope that we must have if we are to change direction. . . . I think to be fully human, we need to have meaning in our lives, and that's what I am trying to help these young people to find.
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For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.'
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I've been playing the CNN Drinking Game, have you ever played that? Where you do a shot every time George Bush says the word 'evil'? Oh, I'm a wreck! You gotta do a double shot every time he says 'evildoers'. Chug the bottle for 'axis of evil'. Are you a president or an exorcist?!
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I do to others what they do to me, only worse.
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The good lawyer is the great salesman.
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Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
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I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
