Mary Pilon Quotes
I was an ambidextrous child, and the symmetry of roller skating was a welcome respite from my awkwardness with physical activities that involved a ball or a racket.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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We do not interfere in U.S. politics... and Europeans expect that America does not interfere in European politics.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to.
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I have this board in my house that lists out all the things that I love about myself. It's a board of affirmations, and it serves me well.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.
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When I know the data that's being shared and I'm asked explicitly for my consent, I want some sites to understand my habits. It helps them suggest books for me to read or movies for my family to watch or friends for us to connect with.
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I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.
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I do believe that our ability to jam the Trump brand is somewhat limited. I think we can chip away at it, but ultimately, the way to undermine the Trump brand is a better product in the political marketplace, if you'll forgive the capitalist metaphor.
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If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
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I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.
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I didn't feel attractive in high school.
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The population of the United Kingdom has, for the first time, reached sixty million. If they stood on each other's shoulders they would reach perhaps twenty feet in the air before toppling over.
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The Italians have had two thousand years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place.
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Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.
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Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.
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I was an ambidextrous child, and the symmetry of roller skating was a welcome respite from my awkwardness with physical activities that involved a ball or a racket.
