Mary Steenburgen Quotes
Ultimately, there are only two emotions: love and fear. And pretty much anything else you want to name can be broken down into one of those.
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
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The most important thing that everybody can do, aside from building and keeping your network strong, is make good choices about your health.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.
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The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
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I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
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I played point guard my whole life.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.
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Twitter means all my friends are in my computer. All my ideas are in my computer. I can do whatever I want in there; I'm kind of... bionic.
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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
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The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see.
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Scientifically speaking, a butterfly is at least as mysterious as a superstring. When something ceases to be mysterious it ceases to be of absorbing interest to scientists. Almost all things scientists think and dream about are mysterious.
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I often have an argument with people. I say name me a classic song that's not sad in some kind of way. And even if you can, you'll have to search pretty far.
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I am double jointed in my elbow. So I can turn it all the way around and then bend it so it looks like it's broken.
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Be proud to be a decent American rather than a wanker whipping up fear.
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Ultimately, there are only two emotions: love and fear. And pretty much anything else you want to name can be broken down into one of those.
