Maggie Smith Quotes
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Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.
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The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners.
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Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
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What I do for a living is listen.
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When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.
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Diving has been in the game for years. Probably the coverage the game gets now, with all the cameras around, it gets highlighted a bit more. But it hasn't got any worse.
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I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.
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Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.
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A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.
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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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Your evolutionary heuristics come back to the idea of a future roughly similar to what it is now. You give to the community as it is now, to benefit a similar community in the future.
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I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.
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I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
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I prefer to unwind by DJing. I learned that from Mike D from the Beastie Boys. After a show, he would DJ. Once I saw that, I wanted to do that. And now DJing is like my lifeline. I love the power it represents.
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We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.
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There are always more people who prefer to speak than to listen.
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If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.
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Las Vegas has the type of audience - and they haven't changed since my father's days - they're still boring and bored. And there's only that handful of artists that they really enjoy and know how to respond to.
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Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long we shall have each other.
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Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.
