Mary Tyler Moore Quotes
Whatever it is, it’s OK because it’s what it is. Don’t be looking for perfection. Don’t be short-tempered with yourself. And you’ll be a whole lot nicer to be around with everyone else.
Quotes to Explore
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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Midi is my hobby.
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I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.
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When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.
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I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.
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A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.
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Getting up quite late in the morning, going and trying to clean my bikes - I have quite a few of them in Ranchi - spending some time with my family, my parents and friends. Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass. These are the sort of things that really excite me.
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As a 13-year-old girl, it was never my intention to be the center of world news.
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In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.
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Less hate and greedIs what we needAnd more of service true;More men to loveThe flag aboveAnd keep it first in view.Less boast and bragAbout the flag,More faith in what it means;More heads erect,More self-respect,Less talk of war machines.
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There must be renewed recognition that societies are kept stable and healthy by reform, not by thought police; this means there must be free play for so-called subversive ideas - every idea subverts the old to make way for the new. To shut off subversion is to shut off peaceful progress and to invite revolution and war.
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Ἔστι· θεοῦ δ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἰσχὺς καθυπερτέρα·πολλάκι δ᾽ ἐν κακοῖσι τὸν ἀμάχανονκἀκ χαλεπᾶς δύας ὕπερθ᾽ ὀμμάτωνκρημναμενᾶν νεφελᾶν ὀρθοῖ.
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That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved; never, that I know of, controverted.
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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
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To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
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But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.
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With apologies to all my past boyfriends, I never loved a man the way I loved my old apartment.
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Parkinson's is described as a progressive idiopathic neurodegenerative disorder, a brain disease that will worsen with time for which no cause has as yet been identified.
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As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.
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Whatever it is, it’s OK because it’s what it is. Don’t be looking for perfection. Don’t be short-tempered with yourself. And you’ll be a whole lot nicer to be around with everyone else.
