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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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 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 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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I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.
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Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.
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When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
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I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.
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We want to open digg up to just about anyone and everyone that wants to express their interest in any type of news story or Web content.
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I'll always be a party monster. I'll always love getting dressed up.
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Honestly, I'm interested in politics; I'm interested in giving back in some form, performing some sort of civic duty. But I'm not exploring a run for governor or senator or anything along those lines. I'm focused on running Disney.
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I like to use exercise classes as a way of understanding what people are doing. I'm promiscuous in terms of exercise. You see what people are wearing. You see what people are responding to. You see what the music is they're listening to. An exercise class is social anthropology: what clothes people are wearing, what are the new sneakers.
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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.
