Gerald Fischbach Quotes
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
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When I was just starting out, I had two choices: I could be the beautiful girl on the main man's arm as decoration, or I would have to do a little independent movie to get any depth in the female character.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
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A surgeon wouldn't sell his tools. A lawyer doesn't sell his law books. I'm not going to sell my horse. I'm a sportsman.
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I finally, you know, moved to Mexico City, where the film industry is. I started working there as a producer, which is a very, very valid thing for women to do, because we always produce for men, right?
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How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'
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I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all.
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Though many people mistakenly credit IBM with the first PC in 1981, the Apple II came out four years earlier, in 1977.
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It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard;It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word.
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When I get anxious and scared, I probably lose my temper more than I should.
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Externally China desires independence, internally she seeks to maintain her existence as a nation; China therefore strives to loose the bonds that bind her people, and to complete the establishment of a new State.
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Great wealth could make an enormous difference over the next decade if they sensibly support the scientific elite. Just the elite. Because the elite makes most of the progress. You should worry about people who produce really novel inventions, not pedantic hacks.
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My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be funny and become a comedian and a comedy writer, so to say that he's somewhat of a mythic figure in my life would be an understatement.
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My everyday life is not just walking around on clouds. But you have to give the really special things in life importance and not let the temporary things roll you off the road.
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Even when one is no longer attached to things, it's still something to have been attached to them; because it was always for reasons which other people didn't grasp...' There are the places in memory you do not wish to go with others.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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Memory is the scaffolding upon which all mental life is constructed.
