Al Hirschfeld Quotes
The opening-night audience is mostly friends of the cast and backers of the show, and they cometo applaud their money.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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Once you're in a room like '30 Rock,' it's a creative setting, so you write more even after you go home, just because you're still in that mode of coming up with jokes. So the job wasn't sapping standup jokes, but it was sapping stand up time and energy, and I wouldn't be able to travel as much.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'
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It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.
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Everything I say is true.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.
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In novels in general - and also on the television - we do live in a world where bodies is what we are. We do not talk about the spirit or the soul, and there is a sense that we no longer talk about beliefs, either Freudian or Marxist.
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When I see something, I go for it.
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It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
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I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'
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Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.
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There's something about the expanse of nature that forces you to think clearly.
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My No. 1 responsibility when I'm not slaying zombies is being a parent.
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I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.
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In the United States, the mainstream news outlets like to portray themselves as observers, content to let events play out without interference. But in Britain, where crusading journalistic campaigns are part of the tradition, it is far more acceptable for reporters to become active participants, with a specific outcome in mind.
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To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.
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The opening-night audience is mostly friends of the cast and backers of the show, and they cometo applaud their money.
