Marc Platt Quotes
Some of the metaphors you find in 'Wicked' - how those in power can exploit fear in others to maintain their power - I think, as Jews, we've seen that historically on more than one occasion.
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With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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Jon Bon Jovi is remarkable.
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I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.
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I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.
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The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.
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Getting toxic lead out of gasoline, the oil industry shouted, would cost a dollar a gallon. It turned out to cost just a penny a gallon to protect hundreds of thousands of kids from lead-induced brain damage.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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Treat your enemies with courtesy, and you'll see how valuable it really is. It costs little but pays a nice dividend: those who honor are honored. Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.
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I remembered being young in the late '70s and early '80s and growing up at the height of the Cold War. I remembered how scared I was of nuclear weapons, how often I though about them and about the possibility of everything and everyone I knew vanishing in a second in temperatures hotter than the centre of the sun.
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When finding that people held the same views as I, I persuaded myself that I held them differently.
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It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one.
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Some of the metaphors you find in 'Wicked' - how those in power can exploit fear in others to maintain their power - I think, as Jews, we've seen that historically on more than one occasion.
