Norman Lear Quotes
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I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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To be among the world's greatest athletes and compete for Team U.S.A. while knowing that the entire world is watching is something that athletes dream about. To be able to experience that was truly special.
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I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
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Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.
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The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn't take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it's really fun. It kind of wows people. It's like they're watching magic happen right before their eyes.
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Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.
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I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.
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To build a digital media company, you have to focus equally on content and technology. In content, you have to focus equally on the written word and video.
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
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I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control.
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You can take risks with the characters and their development in a standalone novel.
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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
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All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.
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Imagine how a Teddy Kennedy or a Bill Clinton would take the news that one woman in ten, say, has the power to resist his blandishments by deadly force, and you'll get a perfect idea of how a Charles Schumer or a George Bush feels about armed taxpayers.
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I don't like being left to my own thoughts.
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Activist Supreme Courts are not new. The Dred Scott decision in 1856, imposing slavery in free territories; the Plessy decision in 1896, imposing segregation on a private railroad company; the Korematsu decision in 1944, upholding Franklin Roosevelt’s internment of American citizens, mostly Japanese Americans; and the Roe decision in 1973, imposing abortion on the entire nation; are examples of the consequences of activist Courts and justices.
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My major obligation or responsibility is to work to integrate gender issues throughout the work of the State Department.
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Power is the goal of religion in general.
