Alan Zweibel Quotes
I haven't written a brochure yet. It's killing me. I know I have a brochure or pamphlet in me yet.
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My family is a kaleidoscope... My family is like that. We're all different colors, like a prism. When we have light shine and stuff, we're beautiful. When it's dark, nothing shines, and it's a rock.
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I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
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Young readers are the most challenging, demanding, and rewarding of audiences. Adults often ask why I write for the younger set. My reply: 'I can't think of anyone I'd rather write for.'
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I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it.
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All of us can expect to live longer than any organization that we would work for. That continues apace. Human longevity is increasing; corporate longevity is decreasing.
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There was a lake beneath me, but the big, heavy parachute which had to be opened two miles above the ground couldn't be steered. My first thought was, 'Lord, they send just one woman into space, and she has to end up in the water.'
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The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.
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I think the United Nations is a useful format to discuss matters, but I think it's a weak institution in being able to carry out matters and, in many respects even, it has been harmful on things like human rights.
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My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.'
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I have a lot of respect for Eminem and Rihanna. They are both very real in their music.
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There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
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I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal.
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The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game.
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One grand fallacy of the women's movement: Expecting work to mean 'power' and 'self-fulfillment.'
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Science does not permit exceptions.
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Che l'uomo il suo destin fugge di raro.
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I'm from a small town, and I thought I would be a lawyer.
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'Hound Dog' is a really short record, and most singles didn't last three minutes.
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I have broken my collarbone twice in a year.
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Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.
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We show our faces to demand that politicians making promises stick to those promises. We show our faces to ensure that the youth of today will flourish tomorrow.
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Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, who founded Lenny Books together, also happen to have exquisite reading tastes - from obscure small press poetry chapbook to dishy memoirs to literary novels - and so it's a real honor that they've chosen to announce their imprint with my stories.
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A college should feel alarmed rather than pleased if it graduates nothing but good citizens. For when the body politic is composed of nothing but submissive individuals, half of its health and all of its vigor have disappeared.
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I haven't written a brochure yet. It's killing me. I know I have a brochure or pamphlet in me yet.
