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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I love Bridget Fonda.
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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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Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!
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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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Grief is the price we pay for love.
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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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They will open up to what I would call corporate broadcastings where the non-commercial material will have air time. There's no possibility of that here right now, none.
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I can't write a lie; the world of imagination is no good. I objectively capture my own experiences and those of my friends. I want to put true feelings into words. If I make a song when I'm sad, it's a dark one, but I think that's good. No matter when I want to be true to myself.
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When I started really writing fantasy, one of the things I noticed was a real absence of sexuality in the genre at all. And it's such a profound part of the human experience that it's a really big thing to leave out.
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Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the dining experience. But the rest counts as well: The mood, the atmosphere, the music, the feeling, the design, the harmony between what you have on the plate and what surrounds the plate.
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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.
