Wendy Wasserstein Quotes
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
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We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
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I'm quite an advocate of free trade.
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
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Politicians make mistakes. People misspeak in public. God knows I have proven both. A lot.
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth is a fallacy.
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I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!
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I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
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I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.
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Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival.
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It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.
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I tried playing the drums, and I could play 'Boys Don't Cry' by The Cure.
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When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero.
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If the broadcasters were to win on their claims, they'd outlaw the DVR.
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Do and act on what you believe to be right, and you'll wake up the next morning feeling good about yourself.
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Most intuitive ideas have to be clarified, so there is a trial and error process.
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The magic of the mechanisms inside each genetic structure saying exactly where that nerve cell should go - the complexity of these mathematical models is beyond human comprehension.
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I think I'm one of those guys who was sort of always in comedy. I thought of myself - and other people seemed to think of me - as funny from a very young age. I was a very young comedy nerd and I even did sketch comedy in high school and college. I wrote and shot sketches on video and acted in them.
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I was drafted and went to Korea where I had an opportunity to create a production team that did dramatic and comedy shows. I had also done a little disc jockeying.
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The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.
