Marisa Tomei Quotes
I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect.
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I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.
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If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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I am passionate about what design can do - how far it can support the new ideas and the new ways of living of this 21st Century. Good design accelerates this exciting future where manufacturing is local, materials and processes are cradle to cradle, business models are both socially and financially driven.
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
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Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.
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I don't think about fights that didn't happen.
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The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.
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I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
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I knew the ribosome was going to be the focus of Nobel prizes. It stands at the crossroads of biology, between the gene and what comes out of the gene. But I had convinced myself I was not going to be a winner.
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The alternative to independence is decline, because the relationship with the Spanish state is not good; everyone knows that.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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There's been a gap between perception and reality, the perception being that California is on the cutting edge of gun safety legislation when, in fact, there are a number of areas where we have fallen behind.
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Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world.
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The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.
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Never once was it said I was disappointed Peyton didn't win us more than one championship.
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We are all racers at heart, and what we want to see is out and out racing, and may the quickest man win.
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When you're about to give up and your heart's about to break, remember that you're perfect, God makes no mistakes.
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I needed to run away in order to come home.
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I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect.
