Louis Nizer Quotes
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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
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Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.
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As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.
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I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
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The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books in the library were the same. They had the same covers. They had the same characters. I could go and visit those people in the library as if I knew them.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his Government, deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and friend to her foe.
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I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.
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'Tis God gives skill,But not without men's hands: He could not makeAntonio Stradivari's violinsWithout Antonio.
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We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
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The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
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Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.
