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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If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.
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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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The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost any of my old fans, but I have gained new ones.
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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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I have no intention of ever writing beauty tips on how to make an African-American nose look slimmer or Asian eyes look bigger. That's degrading. Asian eyes are what's beautiful about you and what makes you different.
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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've always loved it in Las Vegas, and it is the only city in the world that brings so many different talented people from so many places.
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Yeah, I'm old as the hills and you would think I'd be out to pasture someplace because I've done everything, but nothing has changed.
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I think staying away from labels is what makes my films refreshing.
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You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
