Martha Plimpton Quotes
I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
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One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
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We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.
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We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
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I'm going to start a new career as a singer, I think. I'm going to go the way of Russell Crowe.
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I never exercise, and I eat everything.
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Look at the structure of the Gates Foundation and this idea that, rather than trying to solve these huge global problems through institutions with some kind of democracy and transparency baked into them, we're just going to outsource it to benevolent billionaires.
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Cryptocurrency currencies take the concept of money, and they take it native into computers, where everything is settled with computers and doesn't require external institutions or trusted third parties to validate things.
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A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
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I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In fact, I flunked it twice in high school.
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I think if I was going to be someone for a day, I would want to be a performer, someone big, like Rihanna. I'd want to feel the energy of being on stage. I've always found that very interesting.
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My initial thoughts of becoming a lawyer changed in high school as I became more attracted to math and science and began talking about being an engineer.
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Most people think I'm immodest.
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In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.
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When you're an actor, you just hope you get a job to go to.
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Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why they are so powerful.
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I'm so convinced that hiking helps my writing that I recently decided to offer a series of hiking-writing workshops to see if others had the same experience.
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I wrote my first play when I was eight.
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I don't care if I starve.
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I’ve been a good mother,” she said. It was a plea rather than an affirmation.
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Rock and roll cola wars, I can't take it any more.
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“Modern television evangelists are mostly ignorant men with closed minds who have glimpsed the incredible reach of television – even its political influence – and spend a sizable part of their air time pleading for money.”
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I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.
