Sally Ride Quotes
It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!
Quotes to Explore
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
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We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
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I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
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Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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What I support is moving Medicaid to block grants so that the states can drive that process.
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
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I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just because it's the wrong side of the creator-consumer barrier for me. I'm a visual writer. I think in moving 3D images and write down what I observe.
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Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
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I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that.
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I usually go make-up free when I'm not working. Because I work so much, during the free days that I have I like to let my skin breathe, but of course I'm girly so I like to put on some blush and some mascara.
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I always love that phrase, 'Oh, this is a good idea, but it's execution dependent.' As if anything in life is not execution dependent. Breathing is execution-dependent.
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Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.
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Even on TV appearances or big shows, I don't know if I've ever been as nervous as I was my first time doing stand-up. I just remember getting offstage and sitting down, and my right knee was just shaking from the adrenaline.
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I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.
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I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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You're never going to hear me say, 'Well, I've been critical of Obama five times, so now I need to be critical of McCain five times.' That is a false equivalence, and that's what I think is wrong with journalism.
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With cycling, I can still be active and compete, and ultimately, that's what I love to do, to be competitive.
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When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' There was an amazing teaser trailer with all this weird kind of documentary footage. We were like, 'What was that! I've got to see that! What the hell was that?'
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This business [moviemaking] isn't easy. It's a hard business. You just keep plugging away until you figure it out. You write something you love and keep banging on people's heads until somebody lets you do it.
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It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!
