Len Wein Quotes
I consider myself the luckiest man in the world. I have spent a lifetime doing what I love.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
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I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
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My first Olympics was Munich in 1972. I am better now than I was then, in knowledge and experience. The age of top riders generally tends to be older than in other sports because it takes a lot of time to be consistent.
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There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
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My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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I'm painfully middle class.
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You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.
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I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.
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If some people try to make a prenup into a pre-negotiation of a divorce... Well, that's really sad. But I do think that it's important to understand what each person has coming into the relationship, and what each person expects from the relationship. They aren't always fun discussions to have, and they can be very eye-opening.
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Every city has a Donald Trump; ours is just the Trumpiest.
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up.
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The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.
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I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.
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We are all idealists in that we are ever discontented with the present state of the Ego and the World.
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I consider myself the luckiest man in the world. I have spent a lifetime doing what I love.
