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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There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song.
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What's really going on here is, this is a media shift. It's comparable to what happened in the 1950s and the birth of electronic mass media back then.This is the birth of a new kind of personal media, where, instead of we're all watching one program, we're all watching each other. And the history of media makes it really clear. Whenever we have a big innovation, the first wave of stuff we do is pretty crummy. The printing press gave us pornography, cheap thrillers, and how-to books. Television gave us Newt Minow's vast wasteland.
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People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.
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Vegas is everything that's right with America. You can do whatever you want, 24 hours a day. They've effectively legalized everything there.
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Lee is such a brilliant rival. I treasure the opportunities we have to play each other.
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Her book about the money in sex gives you the feeling of the sex in money.
