Wendy Wasserstein Quotes
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.
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I don't do meetings.
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The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.
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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.
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Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.
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Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.
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I'm thankful to say that I already have my dream job. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.
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If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.
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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.
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While I'm Jewish, the Hasidic world is still foreign to me. But I do understand some of the ideas of tradition and family and faith of our shared culture.
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Now listen, the one thing about agriculture is we've lost our manufacturing, we've lost a great deal of jobs overseas, lots of our industry. The last thing in the world we need to do is lose the ability to produce our food.
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We are worried about the size of the deficit, which is why the president is pleased that the House and Senate have followed his lead in cutting the deficit in half over the next five years.
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My mantra is simple: work gets you work, and good work gets you good work.
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I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.
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Work is a way of shutting out ambiguous sentiment.
