Steven Wright (Steven Alexander Wright) Quotes
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Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.
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I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.
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Even all the top players going to Europe to play helps soccer in America, as do all the MLS players like Beckham and all that, they're trying to promote it. At the end of the day it's about getting the younger generation interested at an early age so most of them will move on and play.
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I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
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Circumcision in the United States is routinely performed without anesthesia, though anesthesia reduces the infant's stress and prevents infection and blood clots.
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Truth is slippery, not because it is difficult to grasp, but because we prefer our preconceptions, our beliefs, our myths.
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The Master was exceedingly gracious to university dons who visited him, but he would never reply to their questions or be drawn into their theological speculations. To his disciples, who marveled at this, he said, 'Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?'
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You know how you get close to something you want and then you start doing things to ensure that you don't quite get it? I did a lot of that.
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Although there have been warnings that it was coming for years, the Alzheimer's epidemic is here now and millions more families will be touched by this progressive - and ultimately fatal - disease unless its course can be altered.
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I do love my hometown. It really forged who I am in a major way.
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They were some of the best years of my life, and I'm so thankful I was able to go to Stanford.
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You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.
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I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.
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Society is still adapting to women being CEOs and professionals rather than homemakers. Because of this, the unfortunate outcome is that we feel we have to be successful at both - in the office and in the home. Striking that balance is different for everyone.
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One of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about it.
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It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a man's.
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I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.
