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'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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Young people, especially, are turning away from McDonald's towards healthy, locally-sourced options like Next Door and Sweetgreen.
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If you don't physically age gracefully, it's a bit sad. I think Steven Tyler can get away anything, because he still looks like he did in '73. Especially from row Z backwards in an arena. As long as the Stones keep their hair and don't get fat they'll get away with the wrinkles.
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Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.
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My parents gave me the easy option that if you're going to go your way, that's the highway. You can expect no funds and no support, which I think was legitimate; that was a fair option.
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And tiny vessels oozed into your neck And formed the bruises That you said you didn't want to fade But they did and so did I that day
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Self-sacrifice is essential to leadership. You will give, give all the time.
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Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.'
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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.
