Milton Sapirstein Quotes
Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally acceptable.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
Wallace Shawn
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
Zach LaVine
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I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world.
Lapo Elkann
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During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
Xi Jinping
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Actually, when I was in elementary school, I saw a saxophone. A band came to my school, and I saw this guy get up and play this solo. And I said, 'Oh man, what is that! That must be fantastic!'
Ornette Coleman
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I've got friends who are literally working alone on indie games that have no prospect of profit or commercial success. I've got guys working on iPhone games.
Warren Spector
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
O. Henry
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
W. C. Fields
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I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.
F. Sionil Jose
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Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.
Edith Widder
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We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
Octavia Spencer
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
Ted Lindsay
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I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
Harold Wilson
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'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.
Oscar Isaac
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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.
Ada Lovelace
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On the PBS recording of 'The Light in the Piazza' backstage, you get to see me doing some sweet lunges down the hallway of the Vivian Beaumont.
Aaron Lazar
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Music is organized sound.
Edgard Varese
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Gays have rights, lesbians have rights, men have rights, women have rights, even animals have rights. How many of us have to die before the community recognizes that we are not expendable?
Octavia St. Laurent
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If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you always got.
Ed Foreman
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There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them, or above each other-by language, which is the parent, and not the child, of thought.
Oscar Wilde
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
Ted Rall
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Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally acceptable.
Milton Sapirstein