Adolph Green Quotes
It never became an act in the sense of an act. It was always, no matter where we worked, little revues.
Quotes to Explore
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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In skating or any amateur sport, as athletes we share something in common: the cost of training is quite a burden on our parents or on the athletes themselves trying to find a way to pay for their costs.
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It is a false choice to tell Israel that it has to choose between peace on the one hand and security on the other. The United Nations would not ask any other country to make that choice, and it should not ask it of Israel.
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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.
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The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.
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I am in love with all the characters I have played. And it is impossible to choose the best.
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I'm actually a very lazy person. Most of the time, I'm happy to sit around and stare. Or watch bad TV soaps. It's quite rare for me to get inspired by anything, but it could be something small. A view of the Serpentine. A snatch of music. Or a little shred of conversation overheard on a bus, such as, 'You also will marry someone of my choice.'
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President George Herbert Walker Bush ran as a strong conservative, ran to continue the third term of Ronald Reagan, continue the Ronald Reagan revolution. Then he raised taxes and in '92 ran as an establishment moderate - same candidate, two very different campaigns.
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'The September Issue' is really a film about Anna Wintour's relationship with long time 'Vogue' Creative Director Grace Coddington. The two of them have been working together for two decades, and the extraordinary symbiosis between them has left an indelible mark on the fashion industry.
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We have a responsibility to ensure the Palestinian Authority is abiding by U.S. law with total transparency.
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When you go in and guest-star on a TV show, they already have their family - everybody pretty much knows everybody, and everyone sort of has that base already formed.
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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
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When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go.
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If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at first; but when once objectified in a crude shape, I can torture and poke and scrape and pat it till it offends me no more.
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When any part of humanity is sidelined, the rest of us cannot sit on the sidelines.
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We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through the private insurers. They just skim off $15 billion.
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We live in a capitalist system; anyone who believes they are above this system or purer than this system, even while shopping at the cute organic market across the street or taking a hiking vacation to Guatemala, is certifiable.
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If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?
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It never became an act in the sense of an act. It was always, no matter where we worked, little revues.
