Martha Plimpton Quotes
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Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?
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When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.
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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
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I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.
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When I started modeling, they tried to pay black models less than they paid Caucasian models. I turned down those jobs because I knew what I was worth.
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Every job is important because each one represents an American's livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.
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It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.
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The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.
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Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
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Each one prays to God according to his own light.
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I think charity begins with your family and you take it from there.
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In China, going public has a cachet from a branding standpoint. It will improve our image to ad agencies, government regulators.
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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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For some reason, the word 'feminist' freaks people out, but when you look it up, all it means is equal opportunity.
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Terrorism as a force is gone. As individuals they are all around and we will continue to look for them.
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Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.
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With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong.
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I somehow see what's beautiful In things that are ephemeral I'm my only friend of mine And love is just a piece of time in the world in the world. And I couldn't help but fall in love again.
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In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.
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I got into cooking just by watching my mom and my aunts and my great-aunts and actually one of my cousins who has her own catering business in Atlanta, Georgia. So everybody around me really cooked and it was just all these different styles and backgrounds and cuisines of cooking that I found so interesting.
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Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform.
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It's an unusual situation for me to be working and making a living.
