Irving Paul Lazar Quotes
In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town.
Quotes to Explore
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Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It's about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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All four majors are definitely a priority.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.
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I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
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I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
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I want to try everything.
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I have never worried about 'Frontline' becoming an old-fashioned news brand, because we never were.
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Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.
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Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.
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I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.
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There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.
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I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.
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I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.
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I think it's natural for a creative to be sensitive. If I'm in the studio and I write something, I think it's the greatest thing in the world; it's like my baby. I just made something out of thin air that exists now in a tangible form. It's the biggest thrill in my life.
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If I start working on something, I get a little too driven.
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In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town.
