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 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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I've been introduced to some huge designers that I could never afford. It's really cool.
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No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into 'the secrets of the nether world,' as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour's heart.
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It is a little scary to go across the whole country, and basically the world, and be like, 'What's up? I'm gay, and you should let me get married everywhere.' I don't feel like I'm a spokesperson. I just sing what my experience is.
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If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you're not going to be happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
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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.
