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 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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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'm big on facial expressions, and I'm big on mannerisms, which I find to be hilarious.
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It is possible for a woman to be a romantic, but also to be single and to be happy.
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I believe in cooperating for the common good.
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But technology is the real skin of our species. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last five hundred years, is an extruder of technological material. We take in matter that has a low degree of organization; we put it through mental filters, and we extrude jewelry, gospels, space shuttles. This is what we do. We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects. All our tool making implies our belief in an ultimate tool. That tool is the flying saucer, or the soul, exteriorized in three-dimensional space.
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The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.
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There are a lot of things that we want to show people, and if you try to show everything about us in a single album, it's a burden for us - and it's a lot for people to handle and accept.
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I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.
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I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.
