Walter Van Tilburg Clark Quotes
We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling.
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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No secret that for some years - long before my time - Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.
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Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.
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I got nominated for a Tony in my Broadway debut, which was fascinating and thrilling and sort of unbelievable all at the same time.
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I've been in government and politics my entire career, and while I try to keep a level head and a reasonable tone in my commentary, even I can lose my head sometimes and let anger bubble over and burst out. It feels gross, looks ugly, and leaves a lasting mark.
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You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
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Our most noted satirists are true columnists, and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented expose.
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I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.
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I've been a free man.
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I never like seeing myself on screen.
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Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.
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A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.
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The Old Vegas is gone. It's not that it's necessarily better or worse; it's just totally different.
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When you step away from doing something that you have always been doing and then you return to it, you have a different perspective. You get that desire and the will to strike at everything.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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Idling is not my strong suit.
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We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling.
