Elaine May Quotes
The only thing experience teaches you is what you can't do. When you start, you think you can do anything. And then you start to get a little tired.
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If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.
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Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.
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Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.
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People trash talk me.
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You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.
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It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
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A fascinating reaction of the human brain when we fail to meet a goal is that it tells us to throw caution to the wind and make things even worse, which ultimately leads to us giving up.
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Moderates want their faith respected. They don't want faith itself criticized, and yet faith itself is what is bringing us all this - this lunacy.
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People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.
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I had been pursuing a Ph.D. in political science when my National Guard unit was sent to Iraq. Eight months into our deployment, in November 2004, a rocket-propelled grenade fired by Iraqi insurgents tore through the pilot's side of the Blackhawk helicopter I was flying.
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.
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The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.
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It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.
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Don't waste even a minute magnifying your perceived inadequacies. You can't do it all. Why berate yourself for not achieving the impossible?
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The concept of doing holiday episodes is a huge part of what's fantastic about doing TV. And viewers agree; you see the numbers going up for holiday episodes.
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Film is always a fight because you're the person, as the director, with a clear picture in your head of what you think is really exciting, and you're just trying to convince a bunch of other people to buy into that.
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I think I look great in green, and I'm going to start wearing more green.
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My models were oral, were storytellers. Like my grandmothers and my aunts. It's true, a lot of people in my life were not literate in a formal sense, but they were storytellers. So I had this experience of just watching somebody spin a tale off the top of her head. I loved that.
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I went to the four levers. None of them were marked. There was only one way to figure out which one was the right one. I had to call upon all my Traveler experience and special powers to figure it out. It's called...Eenie, meenie, miney...mo!" -Bobby Pendragon
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In the first place, then, men should guard against the beginning of change, and in the second place they should not rely upon the political devices of which I have already spoken invented only to deceive the people, for they are proved by experience to be useless.
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The only thing experience teaches you is what you can't do. When you start, you think you can do anything. And then you start to get a little tired.
