Dee Dee Myers Quotes
During my years as a press secretary, I developed a powerful internal filter, which worked to strip all things 'off message' from my thoughts before they came out of my mouth. It didn't always work, of course, and I said more than a few things I regretted.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
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To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.
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When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.
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Too often in our communities many families have not even been aware that certain charities exist; and at the same time, there are many who are willing to volunteer their energy and their resources to help these charities, yet they do not know these charities even exist.
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The traveller has reached the end of the journey!
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For example, I was discussing the use of email and how impersonal it can be, how people will now email someone across the room rather than go and talk to them. But I don't think this is laziness, I think it is a conscious decision people are making to save time.
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There are a lot of actors out there who've made one or two films and who never work again.
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We'll be getting rid of these people here... First, Mr. Samir Naga... Naga... Naga... Not gonna work here anymore, anyway.
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I guess you can be a supermodel today just by building followers. You don't necessarily have to do the work of going to Milan and then to Paris or New York, trying to find the right photographer, artist, or designer to see you.
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During my years as a press secretary, I developed a powerful internal filter, which worked to strip all things 'off message' from my thoughts before they came out of my mouth. It didn't always work, of course, and I said more than a few things I regretted.
