Laura Moser Quotes
My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?
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We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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I do watch a lot of YouTube.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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Jackie Chan is a myth.
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Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.
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What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.
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I think women have to change their hairstyle from time to time.
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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
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God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
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In 2007, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.
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Most TV shows are writing the next episode while you're directing the one you're doing, and they're trying to figure out what they're going to do, and they're putting it all together.
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Education has always produced an incredible amount of data; that's always been obvious to me. But technology had to catch up.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
