Wallace Shawn Quotes
I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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Running back was always my favorite position.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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I married beneath me, all women do.
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Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
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Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
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I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.
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It's funny, oftentimes the really great roles that I enjoy are in classic plays, and there aren't many theatres in New York who will do them, aside from Roundabout.
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The majority of Taiwan people cannot accept Taiwan becoming a second Hong Kong, nor can we accept Taiwan becoming a local government of the People's Republic of China or a Special Administrative Region of China.
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The interesting thing is that when you start out, people have no judgment and they see you young and fresh as a filmmaker - and because you have no experience yet, you're much more naive and think anything is possible.
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If we have no faith in ourselves and in the kind of future we can create together, we are fit only to follow, not to lead. Let us remember that the Bible contains two proverbs we cannot afford to forget. The first is ""Man does not live by bread alone"" and the second is ""Where there is no vision, the people perish.""
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I try to educate people about materialism through my work. I try to show them real visual luxury.
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I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!
