Sally Ride Quotes
I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
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'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.
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A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
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If there was a time when 'The Ecologist' appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn't do 'The Ecologist,' but I think it is useful.
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I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.
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L.A.'s always been good to me.
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My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.
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Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.
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Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.
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I have a very small platform, and if I can use that to reach some kid who's teased for being effeminate or likes clothes, then I've done my job.
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The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last.
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I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.
