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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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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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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The ideal would be to have a career like Meryl Streep's or Kate Winslet's. It's just unbelievable how they manage to make such incredible choices one after the other. If you could have a career anything like that, then that would be a great thing.
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Over time, we amass limiting beliefs about how life supposedly is - beliefs that are not valid. Then we allow these limiting beliefs to stop us from fully living our happiest lives.
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The far-right and far-left can be equally insane.
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Don't fear change - embrace it.
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I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him.
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When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
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I learnt to read when I was five, and I think that is the most important thing that happened to me.
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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.
