Margaret Wise Brown Quotes
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
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The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections.
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Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.
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The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
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Comedians paint ourselves into corners all the time, and tastes in comedy change. The guy in 'The Hangover' was a really fun character to do, and it was easy to do. But you have to find other things because audiences will let you do that for a little bit, and then they're like, 'What else do you have for us, monkey?'
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But when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I'll never forget.
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One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees.
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I think it's cool people love to hate me.
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The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
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You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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We look back at the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments, where people screamed and hollered it's going to be too expensive, they couldn't afford it, and it wouldn't work. And it worked. It worked faster than people expected, at much less cost.
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Many artists, even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn. It strengthens them, it is the beginnings of existence. They are alone!
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Laptop computers dramatically increased the time people spend doing work. (The internet dramatically decreased it, so we're even).
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Everything that anyone would ever look for is usually where they find it.
