Rainer Weiss Quotes
There was a person who thought I was OK. I wasn't a complete dope. I got some confidence out of that.
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Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff. It means that deconstruction of the superhero is something you can do. All those movies have led to a point where we can finally have 'Watchmen' with a Superman character who doesn't want to save the world and a Batman who has trouble in bed.
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Of course I get hurt.
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I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
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I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.
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I'll keep doing my training and I'm sure the goals will come.
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You'd think after 8 years of things called 'The Patriot Act' and 'No Child Left Behind' they would know that we have figured out the 'Call it what it ain't' PR ploy by now, but... um... no.
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I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
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Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.
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I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.
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I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.
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Washington presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and is often credited with its success. But he had no known part in drafting its provisions.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times.
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We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.
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What I wish for myself is that I could be the kind of person who just goes, 'This is what I need,' and doesn't feel bad about it.
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The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -only those who have experienced it can understand it.
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I want to know who you are as a person, and then I want you to develop as a whole human being.
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There was a person who thought I was OK. I wasn't a complete dope. I got some confidence out of that.
