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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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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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 believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
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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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Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
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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 really love muscle cars. I don't think people might realize that about me. I really want to go to an auto auction and blow my life savings on a Camaro. They have such design around them, such panache.
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I looked at but was not allowed to touch Ai Weiwei's 'Sunflower Seeds' at the Tate. The film of making them was really moving.
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Maybe that’s why I felt sad and empty—because I’d missed him all my life.
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When I'm cooking for myself, I find that I eat almost completely vegetarian, although I'm not vegetarian.
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I consider myself the luckiest man in the world. I have spent a lifetime doing what I love.
