Woody Allen (Allan Stewart Konigsberg) Quotes
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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I would love to be in a Nicholas Sparks movie. And Scarlett Johansson inspired me. I think it's cool when women are able to kick butt.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
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Acting is in your soul.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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To change what you get, you must change who you are.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.
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I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade.
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When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.
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If love is blind, patriotism has lost all five senses.
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There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.
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Maybe the poets are right. Maybe love is the only answer.
