Al Hirschfeld Quotes
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!
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People associate girls with long blonde hair with the girls in 'Clueless' or 'Legally Blonde.' You can't be smart and educated and have an opinion because you are supposed to be stupid.
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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EmTech Asia brings together some of the brightest minds in technology and computer security.
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Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
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It's always a leap of faith when you get involved with somebody.
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I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom — because that's all dung to a soldier.
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Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.
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I'm a musician. It's what I do! I wouldn't be too good at anything else.
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Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.
