Lynn Schusterman Quotes
Across the Jewish community, the MLK Shabbat Suppers are part of Repair the World's multi-year effort to mobilize Jews across the nation to serve as tutors, mentors, and college access coaches for public school children.
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Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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The Florida Jewish community is incredibly important in the primary and will be that important in the general election as well.
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You've got the Trump water and Trump Steaks and Trump's very so-called dodgy university. And so many of the towers, the Trump towers around the world, the Trump resorts around the world, those are not owned by the Trump Organization.
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Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.
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In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.
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We must build relationships, get to know one another's children, open our arms rather than close our hearts.
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I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.
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Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
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I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.
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The wonderful thing about drama school is that it stretches you in a way the industry doesn't.
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'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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I was always the smallest role in community theater and school plays. I always had two lines - I was the kid that came on stage and said one thing and then left, and that was my part for the play.
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I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar.
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Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
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This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive.
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Throughout my entire life, I've always been a captain. I was the captain of my high school team. I was the captain at Oklahoma State University. I was the captain of the 2008 Olympic team.
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The secret to missionary work is work. Work, work, work!
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Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.
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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
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Wrestling is a one-on-one experience and if something goes wrong you can't point a finger and blame somebody else. What you do is up to you. And yet it's a team sport, because whether your team wins or loses is a result of the cumulative effect of the matches. Wrestling is a great confidence builder because it's not all about strength. You have to use your balance and skill and technique and if you do, you can overcome a lot of muscle and bulk guys, and even those who have natural ability. Basically, you can out-technique an opponent.
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Across the Jewish community, the MLK Shabbat Suppers are part of Repair the World's multi-year effort to mobilize Jews across the nation to serve as tutors, mentors, and college access coaches for public school children.
