Louis Begley Quotes
I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I would like to continue to tell stories so long as I have stories to tell.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
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I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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I have to trust what I do and then do it.
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A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
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Safe care saves lives and saves money. Adverse events like high levels of infection, blood clots or falls in hospital, emergency readmissions and pressure sores cost the NHS billions of pounds every year. There is a serious human cost, too, with patients ending up injured, or even dead. Most are avoidable with the right care.
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There's only so many things to sing about, so what's going to make a song appeal to you more than someone else's is just a unique way of saying the same thing.
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When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.
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There is no such thing as a cleanse. Cleanses tell you that you need to get rid of that piece of gum you swallowed in fifth grade that is still stuck to your intestinal lining. That's not true.
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I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I would like to continue to tell stories so long as I have stories to tell.
