Irwin Shaw Quotes
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I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.
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The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.
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Homosexuals are not welcome in the Gambia.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.
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Bitcoin is here to stay. There would be a hacker uproar to anyone who attempted to take credit for the patent of cryptocurrency. And I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of hacker fury.
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I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
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I had it then. Soda fought for fun, Steve for hatred, Darry for pride, and Two-Bit for conformity. Why do I fight? I thought, and couldn't think of any real good reason. There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.
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When I put out 'Toot It and Boot It,' did anything sound like that?
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I chose a career in medicine because I wanted a tangible skill with which to serve people. And so my role as a physician is my attempt to do that.
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It is difficult to get played at my age on the radio.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
