Bill Konigsberg Quotes
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
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I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.
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If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended up dreaming about tennis, I would go nuts.
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
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To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.
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Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased striving for anything resembling perfection when it comes to managing your money.
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I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight,New earths and skies and seas around, And in my day the sun doth pale his light.
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Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.
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There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
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If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
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Most people that take jobs as police officers are taking them because they're good jobs. Many who go into these jobs are doing it because it's good work.
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Too many investors overvalue companies in the near term while undervaluing them in the long term.
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I don't think I've ever been true to jazz. There's always a kind of jazz element to what I do. There are a very few genres that I haven't tried out, really, in what I've been doing. As a jazz musician, you can kind of mess about with things with a certain level of musicianship, which helps.
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Whatever I hear in my head is what I play.
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Health care confronts us with a difficult test. We have never corrected failure in something so deeply embedded in people's lives and in the economy without the pressure of an outright crisis.
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I am in favor of admitting any territory into the Union of States as soon as it has fulfilled the requirements of the Constitution and shall petition for admission.
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Most of the art I have is more on the beautiful side than the violent or disturbing side.
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But, the truth is and we can argue about whether this is right or not as long as we want to, but the fact is that women really do spend more time with their families. Until I can find a man who can tell me the dates of all of his nieces and nephews birthdays and get presents out to them regularly, I'm going to stay by that statement.
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Acceptance and assimilation, you know, breeds mediocrity and perhaps an even more sheep-like conformism in terms of what kind of music you're supposed to listen to if you're gay... What are you supposed to look like? What's your body supposed to look like?
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If you absolutely can't tolerate critics, then don't do anything new or interesting.
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There is no room any more for the divisive agenda which has been sought to be foisted on the common man.
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Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.
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Acceptance is an affirmation that you’re good enough.
