Leon Wieseltier Quotes
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
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I admit that when challenging times first surface, it's not first instinct to do a happy dance. But when you take time to pause and add insight to injury, you will immediately start to feel empowered to make those majorly needed life shifts.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.
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You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.
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I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
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My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I was playing a role of co-counsel on the case.
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I think women have to change their hairstyle from time to time.
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Everybody should work in their nation's capitol and see how politics actually work because it was the most eye opening experience of my life.
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I grew up in Muenchen where my father has been a professor for pharmaceutic chemistry at the university. He had studied chemistry and medicine, having been a research student in Leipzig with Wilhelm Ostwald, the Nobel Laureate 1909. So I became familiar with the life of a scientist in a chemical laboratory quite early.
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A thorough knowledge of the elements takes us more than half the road to mastership.
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If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline.
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I was living with my stepfather for a while, and then I moved out and went and lived on my own in Hastings-by-the-Sea from about 16.
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Her book about the money in sex gives you the feeling of the sex in money.
