Edward Zwick Quotes
Yes, illness is serious, but the indignities are also funny. And that defines my world view.
Quotes to Explore
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, maybe black men and women will follow their example. We have a lot of faith and trust in President Obama because his integrity thus far has shown us a new level of manhood, fatherhood and husbandhood.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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We can search among the unconscious, emotion-laden learning rules for the kind of behavior most directly influenced by genetic evolution.
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I am an abolitionist. What does this mean? Abolitionist resistance and resilience draws from a legacy of black-led anti-colonial struggle in the United States and throughout the Americas, including places like Haiti, the first black republic founded on the principles of anti-colonialism and black liberation.
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Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa.
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Carter is the best President the Soviet Union ever had.
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Heart disease is no laughing matter. After my father suffered a massive heart attack, I realized just how serious heart disease can be.
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Yes, illness is serious, but the indignities are also funny. And that defines my world view.
