Binnie Kirshenbaum Quotes
The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.
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I am tone deaf.
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I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.
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The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.
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My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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The truth is, I have more money than I'm interested in spending. Everyone in my family is taken care of.
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That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.
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Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
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People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
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But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.
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There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
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The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
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If we all took a little more time to get to know people, I think it would change the whole temperament of the world.
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The consciousness of being betrayed is to the collective consciousness of a sacred group what a certain form of schizophrenia is to the individual…it is a form of madness.
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The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.
