Irwin Redlener Quotes
From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.
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I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
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The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.
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As a practical matter, it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said that as a consequence of historic wrongs, we are now going to take a big chunk of the nation's resources over a long period of time to make that right.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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I can't sleep in an isolated place without pills, earplugs, and both my children in bed with me for fear of scary, feral characters with a hankering for the wilderness.
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Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story - and hence the extensive research that goes into each one of my books - is much more important than the words that I use to narrate it.
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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.
