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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Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for budding writers as an M.F.A. is now. To be sent away was a badge of honor; to undergo electroshock, a glorious martyrdom.
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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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Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An investment in such basic studies is an effective investment indeed.
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Do not follow anyone else's opinion of your capabilities; find for yourself what you're passionate about and chase it!
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The magic isn't in getting married, it's in staying married
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Ballroom dancing is like being on Mars compared to what I've done throughout my life.
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Something about that whole process of building the structure of that game turned into a real kind of lightbulb moment for me as a writer.
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It's not better to substitute palm oil to get the trans fats out.
