Reggie Lewis Quotes
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
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Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.
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Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
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Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
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I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.
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In general, I would say I'm probably a little more conscious of looking after my skin since I moved to L.A.
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How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.
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Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.
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You can see from a flow diagram who depends on you and whom you can depend on. You can now take joy in your work.
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We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.
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If we release our fixed ideas about how the world should appear, desires can simply fall away. Our attention is paid to releasing, not wanting to release.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends.
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I don't want the All-Star Game to be a one-time thing.
