Jack Schwartz Quotes
Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.
Jack Schwartz
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I work out Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday; take Thursday off; then I work out Friday and Saturday. So sometimes I'll eat whatever I want on Thursday, like a big breakfast of pancakes and bacon and eggs and stuff. You can eat a big, hearty breakfast because you're going to burn off most of it during the day anyway.
Mark Wahlberg
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I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done.
John Oates
Daryl Hall & John Oates
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It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.
Charles Ives
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It bothers me so much that people have gone out of their way to make trans people feel less than.
Adam Rippon
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The best simulator for spacewalking is underwater - it allows full visuals and body movement in 3D. Virtual reality is good, too, and has some advantages, like full Station simulation, not just part. Like all simulators, they have parts that are wrong and misleading: an important thing to remember when preparing for reality.
Chris Hadfield
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Often, the teachers would ask me what language we spoke at home. This was a not-so-subtle way of discovering if we spoke Yiddish which we didn’t and were therefore Jewish which we were.
Edith Hahn Beer
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The crown of a supertall redwood has a towering, cloudy, irregular form, and the crowns of the tallest redwoods can sometimes look like the plume of exhaust from a rocket taking off.
Richard Preston
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When you're a comic, it's like being born gay. It's what you want to do every night when your other friends are out at night going to parties.
Sarah Silverman
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Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.
Brigham Young
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One of the things about landays is that they thrive in a modern context. Early on I went to this incredible Pashtun novelist, Mustafa Salik, who is a bestselling novelist in Afghanistan and works for the BBC in Pashto. With the question of the sanctity of the poems in mind, I asked him, "Aren't you worried? They've been posted on Facebook and such." And he said, "Just the opposite. This is a folk form; they survive and thrive as people share them."
Eliza Griswold
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Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.
Jack Schwartz
