Leon Wieseltier Quotes
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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You cannot do only one thing.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
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There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
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I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to alter my mind. They are a kind, sympathetic race of people and naturally proud of their country.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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By burning nuclear waste as fuel, we believe we can power the United States cleanly for hundreds of years without ever touching new resources.
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...the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes.
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Isn't it amazing what a pencil can have inside?
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There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.
