Robert Lefkowitz Quotes

I was born in 1943 and raised in the Bronx, in a high rise apartment complex known as Parkchester, the only child of Max, an accountant who worked in the garment district in Manhattan, and Rose, an elementary school teacher.

Robert Lefkowitz

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Not to sound too Dr. Phil all of a sudden, but I think the key to survival is to embrace one's past and to not run away from it. And to come to some sort of relationship with it or understanding of it.

Anderson Cooper

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Post-minimalism implies music that's genre-less. Minimalism was very important because it came at a time when contemporary music had become so complex, so experimental and detached that people turned away from it. Minimalism broke that trend and brought music back to the people.

Maya Beiser

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It blows my mind that you get Shakespeare where the 'low' comedy characters have got Northern or Welsh accents.

John Tiffany

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The cyclic universe theory predicts no gravitational waves from the early universe.

Stephen Hawking

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Golf mogul Donald Trump sports an arrangement of hair that is less a comb-over than a 'do-over, a candy-floss confection of gossamer wisps that comes off as the clumsiest cover-up since Watergate.

Steve Rushin

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Many of the things that shape the way the world looks are, quite frankly, invisible.

Trevor Paglen

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My whole life has been singing and painting. I just do those two things.

Tony Bennett

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I certainly would like to see the war on coal come to an end.

Mitch McConnell

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It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes to heal it, but who cares if the writer is not whole; of course the writer is not whole, or even particularly well.

Joy Williams

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The FARC has given up their arms. They are now a political party. They are now doing politics, which is what a peace process was all about.

Juan Manuel Santos

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The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

Joseph Conrad

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Michael did it all. I am telling you that he is the most brilliant father. Almost before the baby needed something, he knew what it was.

Debbie Rowe

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