Lillian Hellman Quotes
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.
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I live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can.
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I live in the Hollywood Hills. When I see a cop driving around there, I actually assume that he has my best interests at heart and that he has the best interests of my property at heart. I think if you'd go to Pasadena, they'd say the same thing. And I think if you knocked on doors in Glendale and asked them, they'd say the same thing.
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Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.
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One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails of the probability distributions we are using are too thin, our VAR measures are likely to be too low.
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A Marshal of France is a fine fellow, second only to the Emperor, and he wore a dark blue uniform edged with golden leaves, and his collar and shoulders were heavy with gilt decorations. A Marshal of France was given privileges, riches, and honour, but they had to be earned by answering the difficult questions.
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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
