Mary Astell Quotes
How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.

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Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
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One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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When I fell for Johnny Galecki, we both knew immediately that we had this connection, and that was it.
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I kind of crave loneliness.
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On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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Forcing women in or near land combat will hurt recruiting, not help.
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There is nothing more satisfying than having plans.
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Music lets me forget bad experiences. You cannot keep ragas and regrets in your mind together.
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He awoke-and wanted Mars. The valleys, he thought. What would it be like to trudge among them? Great and greater yet: the dream grew as he became fully conscious, the dream and the yearning. He could almost feel the enveloping presence of the other world, which only Government agents and high officials had seen. A clerk like himself? Not likely.
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I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.
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How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.