Steven Wright (Steven Alexander Wright) Quotes
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Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.
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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
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I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.
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The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
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Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
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No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.
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There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.
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Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.
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You don't have to be smart to act - look at the outgoing president of the United States.
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
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The second someone tries to put me in a box, I will do everything to rebel against that.
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I've been in love with Washington ever since renting my very first apartment there many years ago while working as a Senate intern.
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Many gloat over their own troubles.
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It just feels amazing to have that moment when you realize things are coming together for your team.
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You can't value others until you value yourself.
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In 1913, the noted German actor and director Paul Wegener was making a film in Prague when he heard the legend of Rabbi Loew, who created a golem to protect the inhabitants of the Prague ghetto from persecution.
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I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'
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Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.
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I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
