Christopher Morley Quotes
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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For quite a while, I didn't receive a higher academic status. I didn't feel any discrimination against me as a woman scientist, but I hadn't produced a lot of science journal articles.
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
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We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
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We are in a bit of a policy box and it's going to require us being willing to give up one of the two, which is it's okay to take on more deficits but lets put in some massive spending. Alternatively to say, 'we're going to go through structural unemployment for a while because we want to address deficits.'
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.
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When you're portraying someone that really existed, there has to be a time as an actress where you leave reality and move into the fantasy world so you can do your job of creating a character.
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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
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The Reform Party does not, however, equate 'high profile' with electability.
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I want to score in every game and win things. That's the most important thing.
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
