Steven Wright (Steven Alexander Wright) Quotes
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
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It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.
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Where most of the country is, well, hot - from the bone-baking dry heat of the desert to the flesh-melting humidity of Kerala in the south - Kashmir is cool: so cool, in fact, that in the winter, the temperatures can sink to sub-zero.
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I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.
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To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.
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I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.
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By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series.
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Australia lives with a strange contradiction - our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback, and yet nearly all us live in big cities. Move outside the coastal fringe, and Australia can feel like a foreign country.
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I have dangerous bones in my body.
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I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
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Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.
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I would like to be a legend, everyone wants to be a legend.
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I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.
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Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.
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The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
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You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.
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I did not believe that the public was sophisticated enough to understand that a newsman could wear several hats and that we had the ability to turn off - nearly, you can't say perfectly, but nearly - all of our prejudices and biases.
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I adore the designer B. Michael's curve-flattering gowns, but there is nothing better than jeans with a crisp white shirt.
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Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?
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At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
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A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining"
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It was amazing that I was ever elected.
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A too constant preoccupation with money may seem to indicate the lack of a proper sense of moral values, but [let] those who have always had money . . . be without it for a while, and they will soon discover how quickly it becomes their chief concern.
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You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
