Sam Waterston Quotes
There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
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Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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I was raised on movie sets, and I decided for myself at a very young age that it was what I wanted to do.
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In Japan, the average age of agricultural workers is 65.8. When the aging of its population is accelerating so rapidly, it will be very difficult to sustain the sector whether we liberalize trade or not.
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I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.
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Because many of us make mistakes that can have bad consequences, some intellectuals believe that it is the role of government to intervene and make some of our decisions for us. From what galaxy government is going to hire creatures who do not make mistakes is a question they leave unanswered.
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What is all that ministerial toil and effort for, if not a constant attempt to allow the greatest number to live in as much happiness as possible?
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I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.
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The masculine DOES while the feminine IS. Major in the feminine, but minor in the masculine.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
