Wendy Wasserstein Quotes
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.
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I believe in the stability of my country. I believe in unity.
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When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.
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I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should write a book about it!
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I never ran with my dad. He was old-school. He had a whole different idea of training. He ran in steel-toed boots! But, of course, he's proud of me and proud of the boxer that I became.
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For Komen, for myself, the mission was always foremost in everyone's mind. The mission and the women that we serve. The only group that made this issue political has been Planned Parenthood.
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There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion?
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Something theoretical in the past may become evident and established in the present or in the future. It is a self-evident fact that creation has an innate tendency towards perfection, and it is through this that creation is bound to the law of development or gradual perfection.
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And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.
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I have always considered it a beautiful metaphor that Cervantes had no fixed address in Spain. He is thus everywhere and nowhere. There are a number of sites connected with his life, but none attract hordes of travellers the way Stratford-upon-Avon and the Globe Theatre in London draw Shakespeare aficionados.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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To kill the misconception, I don’t think the songs we wrote before ‘Danger Days’ are bad songs by any means. In fact, I kinda think some of them are among my favorites we have ever written. A lot of them are kinda f—ing rad… they just so happened to have been created in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and we as their parents were not ready to raise them just yet… and so they sat and waited.
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In essence, leaders are people who 'walk ahead,' people genuinely committed to deep changes, in themselves and in their organizations.
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You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'
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That December 1992, we Barça lost the Intercontinental Cup match against São Paulo 2–1. It was one of the few times that I had no problems with a defeat. I've always admired the Brazilian coach Telê Santana for his vision, because it always displayed a genuine love of football.
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being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.
