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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I was playing a defensive guard in 'My All American' who is a really fast runner, so a lot of my training was running. I wasn't too worried about bulking up because he was supposed to be on the small side.
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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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Never being, but always at the edge of Being.
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We wanted to get everyone back focused on the fact we are playing live again. It really does sound great.
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Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
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According to physical measurements, DNA chains are, on the average, 10,000 units long.
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For me, it is about using everything that is there and using the gaps in the record, figuring out why the gaps might be there. And then when you move on to the level of what historians said, laying the interpretations side by side. You also have to look back at the documents and make your own judgments. What the record says and what people say about it. A novelist can fill the gaps in a way that a biographer cannot.
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I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.
