Mary Schmich Quotes
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.
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The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.
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I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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I know I'm fat and I know my hair is straight, but I can sing.
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I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They're really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action.
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Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.
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It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.
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Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.
