Rainer Weiss Quotes
People say, 'I failed out of college! My life is over!' Well, it's not over. It depends on what you do with it.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.
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Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
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I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.
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Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
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I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.
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Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
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What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
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Whatever you want to call it, they have all these names for these coverages, I've seen them. Like those linemen coming out to jam me on the line of scrimmage. A lot of crazy stuff.
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'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it.
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I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too.
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If you have something important to say, Broadway and New York are great places to say it.
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That which could hunger, could starve.
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You gotta know how to get to people's heart
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I made 'Prozac Nation' necessary reading because I write necessarily. I tell my story because it is about everyone else: in 1993, people took pills to relieve the pain just like they do now, but it scared them; it doesn't any more, because talk is not cheap at all - it is tender.
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When people ask me what I think is my best work, it's the bus. There're lots of books, but there's only one bus.
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People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude.
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People say, 'I failed out of college! My life is over!' Well, it's not over. It depends on what you do with it.
