Z'EV Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.
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Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.
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When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
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I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!
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Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.
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It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.
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I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode.
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Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.
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I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.
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You grieve Not that heaven does not exist but That it exists without us
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you're trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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I don't like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight...I've always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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We are all guilty in someone's eyes. More so our own.
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To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
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Chicago was big for me as far as developing as a person and as a basketball player.
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The most attractive characteristic in a person is the story they are telling the world. We stop and stare at stories.
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A hooker once told me she had a headache.
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The storyteller is one who comes bearing a great and lasting gift.
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My scripts are possibly too talkative.
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I have no connections here; only gusty collisions, rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse. ... I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn, a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement. People want to push the buttons and see me glow.
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I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original.
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When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
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I really like accompanying. I like working with vocalists, I've worked with a lot of poets.
