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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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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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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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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The anti-New Deal line is wrong as a matter of economics. F.D.R.'s spending programs did help the economy and created millions of new jobs.
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The only thing we lack for even faster growth is more capital.
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If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.
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'Is there anyone in Chasm City she hasn’t deceived?''Possibly, somewhere, but only as an extreme theoretical possibility.'
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On Dick Cheney's Halliburton severance package He's a guy who's in charge of determining our energy policy, and he's doing it with $31 million of oil company money in his pocket. Is anybody fucking home?
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I've never done songs with people just for the sake of the great combination. I've always done songs with friends.
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A poet sees a flower and can go on and on about how beautiful the colors are. But what the poet doesn't see is the xylem and the phloem and the pollen and the thousands of generations of breeding and the billions of years before that. All of that is only available to the scientists.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
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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.
