Wendy Wasserstein Quotes
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Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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Don't take things too seriously, and just chill.
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In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.
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We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her.
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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
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Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.
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People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.
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I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.
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I will be the last person to condemn ALF the Animal Liberation Front.
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Joe Louis was a good Heavyweight, good boxer but he was kind of in the same boat as Marciano, weighing about 190 to 200 lbs.
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A good religious poem, today, is ambergris, and it is hard to enjoy it for thinking of all those suffering whales; but martyrs are born, not made.
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We had affirmative action programs to help women help themselves economically. Is it now time for affirmative action programs to do for men’s feelings what the government did for women’s economics?
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments
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The intelligence of the universe is social.
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The biggest misconception about me was that I was some kind of wild, crazy rock'n'roll firework. It was an easy image to pick up on, but I'd like to think I was a little deeper than that.
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I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions.
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All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
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I am an abolitionist. What does this mean? Abolitionist resistance and resilience draws from a legacy of black-led anti-colonial struggle in the United States and throughout the Americas, including places like Haiti, the first black republic founded on the principles of anti-colonialism and black liberation.
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I did whatever it takes to do stand-up. There is an abundance of material in struggling and poverty and trying to make it. There is so much humor in that, it's unlimited.
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The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth.
