David Wiesner Quotes
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Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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I wake up some mornings hating me too.
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The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
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To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.
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Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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'Mad Men' still lives in my life as the best job that I've ever had because I thought the character was genius. It was so well-written.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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Ever since I was 10 years old doing jiu-jitsu, I've done well against the tall guys.
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Abbot Terrasson tells us that if the size of a book were measured not by the number of its pages but by the time required to understand it, then we could say about many books that they would be much shorter were they not so short.
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For me, the words 'Anything is possible' haven't served as a bolstering of hope as much as a warning to run for cover.
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I always say that the largest party in every country - the largest opposition group in every country - is the youth party.
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I start a lot of photo projects but never seem to. . . .
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I worry a little bit about - quote - "regime change." We haven't had a great deal of success with that in years. That's just really difficult.
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Before they read words, children are reading pictures.
