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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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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You know, Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and died gracefully, and there's a lot to be said for that.
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The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.
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Although I have lived in Manhattan since 1992, for the better part of two decades I have remained in blissful oblivion of all matters sportif.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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Golf challenges you mentally at any age, and when you become my age, it's a challenge physically to try to make your game work as well as it ever did. That's close to impossible, but that doesn't keep you from trying to hit the ball where you used to hit it and make the putts you used to make all the time.
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Work is a way of shutting out ambiguous sentiment.
