Martha Stewart Quotes
When I was a model - and I was all during high school and college - you always wanted to be on the cover of a magazine. That's how your success was judged. The more cover, the better.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.
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It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
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I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.
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It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
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Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.
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A really useful quality to have as an actor is a lack of self-awareness. I try and get into the character's thinking, and some of them just aren't really that bothered about how they come across or aware of how they come across.
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It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.
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When Mama starts to move across a room, people pay attention. You can never be sure she's not going to grab you by the top of the head to steady herself. And she's pretty free with that walking stick, too.
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As a negotiator, you should strive for a reputation of being fair. Your reputation precedes you. Let it precede you in a way that paves success.
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When I was a model - and I was all during high school and college - you always wanted to be on the cover of a magazine. That's how your success was judged. The more cover, the better.
