Martha Stewart Quotes
When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.
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I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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I became, suddenly, not just a Muslim in faith. I became a Muslim in politics. Somebody whose politics were pre-defined by one interpretation of Islam.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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If I were a Negro, I'd be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I'd rather go down with my flag flying. If you're weak or crippled, or you can't speak out or fight back in some way, then people don't hesitate to treat you badly.
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Islam is perfect, there is nothing to be added or changed.
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As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
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Money for me today does not really matter.
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I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.
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To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'
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I drive my own horses in a race. And I always have.
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I'm the type of person to put myself in everybody else's shoes.
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Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.
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You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.
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In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
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Fascism was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to secure national renaissance by people who felt themselves threatened with decline into decadence and death and were determined to live, and live greatly.
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In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.
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The history of the world - by which, of course, we mean Europe - is a record of intertribal lacerations, of ethnic cleansings.
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Opportunity does not knock. You have to find it.
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I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough.
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When, in 1949, I decided to join the little band of early explorers who had followed Albert Claude in his pioneering expeditions, electron microscopy was still in its infancy.
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Some people have become [in U.S] a lot more conservative but I can't really speak about that because I wasn't there. I feel compassion for their pain but it distresses me to see them all become more patriotic.
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When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.
