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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Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.
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This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
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I've been very lucky because Perth has been very good to me. I've enjoyed my journey and met so many wonderful people.
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Nec tantum prodere vatiquantum scire licet.
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You know, an idea is just an idea. There seems to... the kind of epiphanies that you have, like the little sudden bursts of light, they're very small and they're very short and it's the pursuit of the idea that's the important thing. . . . I know a lot of people who have way better ideas than I do that-much more frequently than I do that just can't sit down and actually do it. Ideas are such are a little overrated really; it's the work behind the idea that's the important thing.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
