Edwin Newman Quotes
Not communicating saves energy; it keeps people from worrying about things they cannot do anything about; and it eliminates an enormous amount of useless talk.
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If our hard-earned liberty, our desire to be irreverent of the old and to question the new, can be reduced to one, basic and indispensable right, it must be the right to free speech.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
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Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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There is so much to be gained from investing more time in what we eat. Buying fresh ingredients means knowing where your food comes from and what's in it.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.
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Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.
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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
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I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
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He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.
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My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.
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You can forgive yourself a great deal.
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I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog.
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Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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Though I’m sure Stanley Kubrick was full of energy, he didn’t seem like it because he was so quiet and he moved very calculatingly–rather slow physically.
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When I had dark hair I definitely felt that I was more anonymous.
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Not communicating saves energy; it keeps people from worrying about things they cannot do anything about; and it eliminates an enormous amount of useless talk.
