Marion Nestle Quotes
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
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I went to a very progressive elementary school where I was heavily educated in civil rights. I remember learning about Harvey Milk when I was in sixth or seventh grade and being so inspired.
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The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.
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Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.
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In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
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If you can sing to a room of 60 people who don't give a damn, then if, someday, you're playing to people who really want to hear your music, that's not hard.
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Away back in that time-in 1492 - there was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man. . . . What did he find when he first arrived here? Did he find a white man standing on the continent then? . . . I stood here first, and Columbus first discovered me.
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It's time to get the FDA to reverse its 1994 decision not to label GM foods.
