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I was the first critic ever to win a Tony - for co-authoring 'Elaine Stritch

at Liberty.' Criticism is a life without risk; the critic is risking his opinion, the maker is risking his life. It's a humbling thought but important for the critic to keep it in mind - a thought he can only know if he's made something himself.
John Lahr

Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.
Rashida Jones

Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.
Gijs de Vries

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
Aristotle

One must strike the right balance between speed and quality.
Clare Short

Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man.
Charles Lyell

Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.
Edith Piaf

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.
Caroline Kennedy

My son has been a class clown and it sort of ran in the family.
Robert Klein

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