Aron Nimzowitsch Quotes
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When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.
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I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.
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I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.
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I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
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When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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The devil made me do it.
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Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.
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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.
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The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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There has been an earth for a little more than a billion years. As for the question of the end of it I advise: Wait and see!
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At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, 'completes what nature left unfinished.'
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Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.
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Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
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The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.
