Mary Gordon Quotes
I wasn't thinking about my pension plan until about two years ago. When I was in my twenties, the idea that you'd be thinking of taking a job based on its health-care policy was completely foreign. But these days young people are thinking about these things.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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The first part of my life, as a player, has ended but now I'm heading into an equally important part as a manager, hoping to do as well as I did on the field.
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Yet even the brightest of sunrises must come to an end.
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The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
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There is a real joy to be able to get up and react to each other and appreciate the whole being greater than the sum of the parts, just the chemistry of the group.
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My first 'Daily Show' piece was pretending I had this terrible immigrant journey, so I went to talk to an immigration lawyer who would help out people, and I ran into him in Penn Station about three months after I'd gotten the green card. I said, 'I got my green card yesterday.' And he hugged me because he understood that level of relief.
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To me more dear, congenial to my heart,One native charm, than all the gloss of art.
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I wasn't thinking about my pension plan until about two years ago. When I was in my twenties, the idea that you'd be thinking of taking a job based on its health-care policy was completely foreign. But these days young people are thinking about these things.
