Mary Kay Blakely Quotes
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I am a Buddhist.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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I would like to direct.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.
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I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract. It's a good feeling.
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I feel comfortable any position I play. It doesn't matter.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
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I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.
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I have this dream that the first responders to 911 calls will not be law enforcement personnel but robots. Robots can put eyes and ears on the scene much faster than you can with policemen or women.
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I have the right to protect myself. I feel like I have very good aim. My wife is better.
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It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.
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The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.
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When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.
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I never thought that I would sell to young people, but now girls who are 14 and 15 buy my shoes.
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I just want other people to know the kind of joy that I have in my life. I want other people to be able to have fun.
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I don't have secrets in my life. Everything is out there.
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There is no occasion when meals should become totally unimportant. Meals can be very small indeed, very inexpensive, short times taken in the midst of a big push of work, but they should be always more than just food.
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Love will find its way through all languages on its own.
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Normally, I don't recommend me for wedding dresses – they all get a divorce.
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In abstract mathematics or abstract art, the purpose is to describe inner states of our mind, and to explore the limits of our own imagination and our capacity for creativity. While this has some applications in the world, I think it leads to a distance from the world. Going to Congo was for me an act of seeking proximity, of breaking that distance. With abstraction, which is brilliant and vain, you divorce yourself from any kind of proximity to other people.
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For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.
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Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.
