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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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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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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I'm not registered to any party. I don't really play in the political world. I'm really more interested in getting things done.
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When I graduated high school, I bought a guitar and, at first, didn't really think I'd get into the songwriting thing as much as I did. But after learning a few songs of other people's to play on the guitar, I got bored with that and just started writing songs on my own, and that's kinda how it came about.
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As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.
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With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.
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'Do you understand what’s going on?''Not at all,' he shouted back. 'I can almost prove this can’t be happening.'
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Coaches know that a parent publicly scolding his kid after a race will not help the athlete perform better.
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The most important thing a leader can do is set the vision and don't stray. We said, 'We are a research foundation. Our mission is to accelerate cures.'
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The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them.
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Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.
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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.
