Nell Carter Quotes
I always look forward to getting back East. I miss the cold weather and the Jewish delis.
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Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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I wanted to go to college and play football.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions.
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Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.
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Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
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The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
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The most important, what I believe myself to do, is what is the interest of Lebanon, what is the interest of my country and my nation? And I'm going to do it fully.
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I loved Allan Dwan. He was a tough old guy.
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I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.
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Conflict cannot survive without your participation.
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Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
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In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance.
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An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.
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It's unbelievable how many things I've learned from Merlin Olsen.
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Russia is an important power upon which the U.S.A. imposed a Cold War.
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'Beautiful things may be admired, if not loved,' asserted the Tin Man. 'Flowers are beautiful, for instance, but we are not inclined to marry them. Duty, on the contrary, is a bugle call to action, whether you are inclined to act, or not. In this case, I obey the bugle call of duty.'
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
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The lake was always my orienting point when my dad was teaching me how to not get lost. The lake is east, so you'll always know that. It's a weird thing where you can kind of feel where you're at in Chicago, and when I was downtown, I was like, 'Oh, it feels more open over here. That must be east.' It felt like a little secret thing.
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I always look forward to getting back East. I miss the cold weather and the Jewish delis.
