Elie Wiesel Quotes
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I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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I grew up in the era of Britney Spears, where artists had songs written for them, and you got up and sang them. That's how I always thought it was.
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Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
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Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
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Kudos to you for generating enough sweat that it actually drips off of your body - and all over the machine you are using at the time. If you sweat a lot, that's fine, but wipe down the damn machine when you're done... or I will confront you, and it will not be pretty.
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I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night out for less than two pounds!
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Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
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Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience.
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He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
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I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.
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After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.
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Nowadays, people always say, how come he's doing such young shows? But they never mention The Mod Squad. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl.
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I watch a lot of bad TV. I spend my entire day reading and writing, and after dinner my idea of fun is just to watch a lot of bad TV. That's how I relax and stay in touch with modern culture.
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Growing up, I would have to watch the other children and learn from my mistakes. I would have to push myself to overcome the things most people don't have to think about. Brushing my teeth was very difficult because of the noise of the brush.
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Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.
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I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
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My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.
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No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.
