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 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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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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I moved to Milan when I was 15. I was always looking for something; I never really felt like I belonged where I was, so I went to live overseas.
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God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said.
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My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.
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There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.
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A good book written for children can be read by adults
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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.
