Marc Platt Quotes

There were 100 intellectual reasons not to pursue 'Wicked.' There were times where it was very challenging, where the mind said, 'This is maybe too challenging,' but the heart willed it. The heart willed it to succeed.

Marc Platt

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HeartMindSucceedSaidIntellectual

I really never get recognized at all for anything.

Jennifer Ehle

NeverAnythingGetRecognizedReally

People say their weight is genetic. But it turns out that people who are overweight don't just have overweight kids. They also have overweight pets. That's not genetic.

Mehmet Oz

PeopleSayPeople SayOutJustKids

So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.

John Olver

WarAmericaDoingResultBackBeen

I don't really think of myself as a businessman at all. That's why I have the 'chief creative officer' role.

John Lasseter

MyselfCreativeThinkWhyRole

Missing out an apostrophe or two does not make you an idiot. But equating party allegiance with nationhood certainly makes you a thug. And thugs don't often notice that they're thugs, usually because they're also idiots.

Robert Webb

IdiotYouPartyThugIdiotsOut

Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the body, that is, a movement and a regulator?

Jules Verne

SoulBodyUnderstandTwoMovement

I always loved strange stories like the Dr. Seuss stuff. 'Go, Dog. Go!' was one of my favorite stories - it still is. It's just such a bizarre yet true book. And I did well reading and writing as a kid throughout school. I think early on that's what made me realize what an advantage that is.

Jon Scieszka

DogSchoolMeWritingBookReading

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

Christopher Lasch

LoveJusticePoliticsPerfectBecome

I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.

Bono

LivePeopleSpeakThinkLanguage

I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my children deeply puzzling.

Alison Gopnik

LifeChildrenThinkingFindThree

All my life I've encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that thing. Since I was a little kid, I hadn't afforded myself the opportunity, I guess, to have a hobby.

William Gibson

LifeOpportunityMyselfExperience

I have decided not to do the spa. Too time consuming.

Sela Ward

TimeTooDecidedConsuming

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