Michael Zaslow Quotes
I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.
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I think we all have different moods - a nerd one day and cool the next. I think everyone has an inner geek, and I know I definitely do.
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I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.
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Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.
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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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Anything could happen. Together, she and Ulysses could change the world. Or something.
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Species evolve to meet the environment. An intelligent species changes the environment to suit itself. As soon as a species becomes intelligent, it should stop evolving.
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When I look back at my career as an author, I don't look at the first book that was ever published as to where my career began - I look to the first book that I ever wrote.
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When I named it 'Girl Problems,' I knew I would be inviting some interesting questions and some funny questions, but that was the cool part about it - I wanted that.
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Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen, laughed and laughed.
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I never got caught up in playing for history, seeing how many majors I could win, or rewriting the record books. Those are selfish objectives, and the guy who chokes usually does so because he dwells on what it all means to him. I was only worried about my family. And although I had my share of failures, it was never because I choked.
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I love a bit of passion.
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The goal here is to triple the lifespan of human beings. We can't have triple the natural resources, so we need to be more efficient.
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I think the Shiites want a theocracy.
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I don't care what the political establishment says, Republican, Democrat - I'm a problem solver.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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I'm not saying everybody has a social responsibility of what art they create, but art should be open-ended. I just feel there's a lack of consciousness and understanding of impact and reach. Just maybe, for a second, just think of the effect you could have with a lyric.
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“Why did you do it? Give up everything to raise another man's son?' His father did look up at that. 'I didn't raise another man's son,' he said sharply. 'I raised my own.
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I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today.
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My generation's parents told their children, 'Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class.' But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate.
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“Come on baby Let's do the twist.”
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Elegance is timeless. It withstands trend; It withstands the commercialization of what fashion and style have become.
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I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.
