Sally Ride Quotes
I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model!
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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You just can't control your art in the future.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
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When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.
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With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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In the early 1990s, when a lot of the developing world opened up to international capital flows... they ended up in very good long-term projects, but projects that weren't going to pay off for five or 10 or 20 years.
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I am a count, not a saint.
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You don't go home and talk about the great tennis courts that you played, but you do talk about the golf courses you played.
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When we learn to respect all life, we learn to love all life.
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I am guilty of buying way too many gadgets - way too many! And though I try to keep things nice and orderly, sometimes I get distracted and stick saucepans where the stockpots should go.
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I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model!
