Mary Tyler Moore Quotes
There are certain things about me that I will never tell to anyone because I am a very private person. But basically, what you see is who I am. I'm independent, I do like to be liked, I do look for the good side of life and people. I'm positive, I'm disciplined, I like my life in order, and I'm neat as a pin.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.
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This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.
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We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
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My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life.
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It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.
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I'm not going to be horrible just for the sake of having attitude or make other people feel small just to make me feel bigger.
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If the gentleman is not serious, he will not be respected, and his learning will not be on a firm foundation. He considers loyalty and faithfulness to be fundamental, has no friends who are not like him, and when he has made mistakes, he is not afraid of correcting them.
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At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from 'the bush' could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.
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There are certain things about me that I will never tell to anyone because I am a very private person. But basically, what you see is who I am. I'm independent, I do like to be liked, I do look for the good side of life and people. I'm positive, I'm disciplined, I like my life in order, and I'm neat as a pin.
