Marion Nestle Quotes
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To me, it's impolite to go out shopping with no money.
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
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Kicks are my forte. I've got strong legs and high kicks. And I've got very good reach, obviously.
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I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a retired policeman, and my mom works for a glass-processing company. She is health-and-safety manager, and my stepfather is a plumber. I have four half siblings, one from my mom's marriage and three from my dad's marriage, so we are kind of scattered.
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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
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It takes a tough, stand-up governor to stand up to the president of the United States - speaking out against the president, speaking out against his policies and, more than that, having actual policies that will help expand health care while... Trump is trying to diminish it for Illinois families.
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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If the only reason people are coming in and doing anything in your office is because you're giving them a paycheck, I'm not sure you have the most productive workplace there.
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And where may hide what came and loved our clay? as the Poet asked finely.
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If one has lived long enough, there is danger of succumbing to the word 'God' merely because it was always there.
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As quoted in Seeds of Peace : A Catalogue of Quotations (1986) by Jeanne Larson, Madge Micheels-Cyrus, p. 244
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Any great work of art … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
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Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
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I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.
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English is my first language, but musically speaking, I write my music in Spanish.
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The President's budget pays for only six months of the war in Iraq and completely overlooks the transition costs of Social Security reform. The Administration always lied about the cost of the Medicare drug bill.
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I learned a long time ago that it doesn't make me less of a woman because my babies come out of a different place. My C-sections have been fine.
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I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself.
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In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about.
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The magic isn't in getting married, it's in staying married
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I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.
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I remember watching the 'Iron Man' cartoons when I was younger. I remember reading the origin stories and some of the Silver Age stuff, and I read 'The Avengers' - 'The Defenders' and then 'The Avengers' - and that sort of brought me into 'Iron Man.'
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It's not better to substitute palm oil to get the trans fats out.
