Robert Brustein Quotes

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

Robert Brustein

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While early childhood experiences may impel, they do not compel. In the end, evil is a matter of choice.

Andrew Vachss

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Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.

Robert Griffin III

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In Afghanistan, we have had a history of very strong women, and we need to reclaim that history and talk about it.

Rula Ghani

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There should be no doubt why Israel, our best friend and greatest ally in the Middle East, has determined that Iran poses an existential threat.

Lois Frankel

FriendBestBest FriendDoubtWhy

The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, a brilliant show, and often made me cry uncontrollably, suffered ultimately from a lack of rocket launchers.

Joss Whedon

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A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the end.

Jonathan Ive

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I loved my computer; it's a tool. A tool increases your mechanical advantages. It allows you to use your strengths and talents to greater advantage, and that's what tools do, and that's what my computer does for me. It's not my toy, it's my tool.

Jok Church

MeLovedToolsYouTalentsTool

Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.

Bruce Dern

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I'm an American businessman. And I'm a very practical guy. I've supported a lot of different people.

Anthony Scaramucci

PeopleAmericanDifferent PeopleGuy

You come to Washington, there's a rail bill, there's a highway bill, there's a aviation bill. But when you go home, there's an airport, there's a highway, there's a rail, there's transit. It all has to work together.

Anthony Foxx

WorkHomeTogetherYouGoAirport

Years ago, I tore out a Nike ad featuring Allyson Felix and Maria Sharapova looking super fierce and tough. I always told my family that I wanted to be like them someday, so to come home to my apartment and see boxes of Nike gear stacked higher than my doorknob is pretty much a dream come true.

Ashley Wagner

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In the real world, 90% of the money spent on medical research is focused on conditions that are responsible for just 10% of the deaths and disability caused by diseases globally.

Peter Singer

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