Binnie Kirshenbaum Quotes
In this way my mother fell short as a parent, which was something I had to learn to accept because it's how she was, and either you accept people as they are or you turn your back on them and walk away. Those are the choices: forbearance or flight, although that philosophy was slow in coming to me, and for many years, I expected more from people than they could give.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.
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My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used to it. But if you're laughing one minute and, you know, somebody's doing something quite horrific the next minute, it's a little more shocking.
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I don't believe in a chronological way of doing things.
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Sometimes I feel so separated, you know? The Kardashians over here, the Jenners over here, little me in the middle. We've got to keep the family going.
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I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
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I don't think I do look like an A-Lister. I'm more interested in being comfortable in my own skin than trying to be somebody I'm not. Gimme jeans, an old T-shirt, cowboy boots and a baseball cap any day.
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The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.
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The people who read the history books tend to have a natural zeal and are alarmingly well-read.
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Dads in the family are even more important than women in the workplace: The workplace benefits from women, but the family needs dads.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.
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In this way my mother fell short as a parent, which was something I had to learn to accept because it's how she was, and either you accept people as they are or you turn your back on them and walk away. Those are the choices: forbearance or flight, although that philosophy was slow in coming to me, and for many years, I expected more from people than they could give.
