Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Quotes
If we want world peace, we must break the vicious circle of violence and reprisal, of an eye for an eye, of endless hate.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
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California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.
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I remember speaking to a sheik who came back into the political system in late 2008, laid down his arms. His troops became part of the Sons of Iraq, the so-called Sunni Awakening.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.
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I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.
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Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.
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The raw materials of story are the raw materials of all human cultures. Story deals with the same questions as theology, philosophy, psychology. It is concerned with polarities: love and hate, birth and death, joy and sorrow, loss and recovery.
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It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.
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I love playing a character that eats on television. It's so fun.
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I never wanted to be a pop star.
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I think, at the end of the day, when you hear the same voice all the time, it goes in one ear and out the other when you're a player.
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The maternal instinct is in me.
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I directed the next-to-last episode of 'Parenthood.' I wrote three of the four last episodes. I had the cast to my house. Had a champagne toast with the writers. Had a huge cast and crew party. Drank eggnog in the camera truck after we wrapped the final day. All that, and I don't really feel like I've said good-bye to 'Parenthood.'
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The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth always seems to do that when you shine a light on it.
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I was always much more shy. All I knew was that I loved to act. But I don't know about the other part of it. I'm not sure I had the chutzpah to go and prove yourself.
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At any comic book convention in America, you'll find aspiring cartoonists with dozens of complex plot ideas and armloads of character sketches. Only a small percentage ever move from those ideas and sketches to a finished book.
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I think every script has meaningful messages no matter what it is, because inherently life is full of meaning and every single day we lean a lesson.
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Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.
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If we want world peace, we must break the vicious circle of violence and reprisal, of an eye for an eye, of endless hate.
