Richard Masur Quotes
I know deaf people. I have discussed the issues with them I've also thought about them a lot so I have some insights that go a little further than people who haven't had contact with the deaf community.
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?
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I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador.
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The first important movie that I did, I shaved my head for the movie. When the hair grew back, I had white hair for the first time in my life.
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The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.
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I don't know how many people there are with a million dollars who are inclined to give it to a writers' retreat.
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We will work on ways to digitally enhance Everest, matching it with Dolomites and Everest, but I'll do everything physically first. If there's no other way, then I'll go to CGI.
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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
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There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.
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I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.
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Celery leaves are an underused ingredient, most likely because supermarkets sell mostly leafless stalks.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 462
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The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment; the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible.
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It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so long ago myself that I have no memory at all of that stage in my life.
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I love 'Maxim,' actually. It's very cool.
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When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.
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A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.
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Those who write clearly have readers.
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Whether or not Big Brother is watching us, we certainly have to watch him, which may be even worse.
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I know deaf people. I have discussed the issues with them I've also thought about them a lot so I have some insights that go a little further than people who haven't had contact with the deaf community.
