Gary Marcus Quotes
It's one thing to make lemonade out of lemons, another to proclaim that lemons are what you'd hope for in the first place.
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Parent hard, play hard. That's my philosophy.
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Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the language is less important than if it's a good film.
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When one has made his demands upon the Universal, he must be ready for surprises. Everything may seem to be going wrong, when in reality, it is going right.
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Even bipolar vampires needed sleep from time to time, and he was well past his recommended safe dosage of stress.
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So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.
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Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold,
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I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends.
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When I was younger I'd berate myself: You're fat, you're not a good dancer, you'll never have a boyfriend. I don't sweat that kind of stuff anymore. Now every day is a miracle. I've also learned that if something is painful or upsetting, you shouldn't hide from it. You should make it part of your life instead.
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When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.
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I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college
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I can't imagine being quite as lucky at any other time - I certainly never have been before. That goes right down from my producing partners to people like Eddie Vedder. But the two things that make me feel that this was meant to be now and not before was that the story itself has more resonance today - I find it a more important story today than it was then - and Emile.
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I threw out all the bath water, and there was no baby there.
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I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.
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It was shaping up to be one of a handful of days in my life that filled me with the kind of anticipation and excitement that makes your anus tingle ever so slightly.
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It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home there. Even respectability seemed to lose some of its virtue when one practiced it in a tent.
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Any society which is not improving is deteriorating, and the more so the closer and more familiar it is. Even a really superior man almost always begins to deteriorate when he is habitually king of his company.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
