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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I would love to do some theater.
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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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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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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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The federal government is often said in militia circles to have made wholesale seizures of power, at times by subterfuge. A leading grievance holds that the 16th Amendment, which authorizes the federal income tax, was ratified through fraud.
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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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Win pretty, win ugly, just win.
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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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This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's.
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Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.
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The significant element that is common to Rivera, Siqueros, Picasso, Pollock, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo is the expression of pain.
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The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.
