Wallace Shawn Quotes
I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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It's been a long slog back, and we've still got a long way to go.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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I have a 6-year-old niece who doesn't look like the majority of girls on the covers of magazines. I hope that by the time she's 16, the world will have changed.
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The media, the polls and our legislatures fortunately have short attention spans.
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I minored in creative writing in college, and I've played with the idea of doing something more hybrid, but comics are my first love.
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The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years.
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I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.
