Curtis Sliwa Quotes
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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We all have seven secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes; our terror of death; our experience of shame; the world of pain; and our dreams. No one ever knows these lives. Consciousness is solitary. Each person lives in that bubble universe that rests under the skull, alone.
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At least since the Industrial Revolution, the world of design has been dominated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production. Assembly lines have dictated a world made of parts, framing the imagination of designers and architects who have been trained to think about their objects as assemblies of discrete parts with distinct functions.
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You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.
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Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.
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A rotten apple in the Guardian Angels stigmatizes us all over the world.
