Mary Tyler Moore Quotes

You truly have to make the very best of what you've got. We all do.

Mary Tyler Moore

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• Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Thought
  • Start

• I want to see what I look like when I'm old - I'm curious where that's going to take me.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Want
  • Me
  • Curious

• Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Why
  • American
  • Black

• I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Women
  • Support
  • Myself

• I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Think
  • Ask
  • Actually

• The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
  • Ideas
  • Story

• I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Me
  • Brother
  • Birthday

• The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from matter led them to preach bareness, renunciation, poverty; and the atmosphere of this invention stifled the minds of the desert pitilessly.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • World
  • Present
  • Poverty

• In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Power
  • Strong

• In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Land
  • Away
  • Ants

• I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Up
  • Want
  • Giving

• If power means having control over one's own life, then perhaps there is no better ranking of the impact of sex roles and racism on power over our own lives than life expectancy.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Power
  • Control

• The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity - a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Stop
  • Fall
  • Curiosity

• Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time rich and cash poor.

  

  Cory Doctorow
  • Time
  • Determination

• The worst programs are the ones where the programmers doing the original work don't lay a solid foundation, and then they're not involved in the program in the future.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Work
  • Future

• Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

  

  Alan Moore

• I'm not a director to make an action or horror film. That's not for me.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Action

• I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • God
  • Family
  • Book

• I find teaching to be a great way to keep everything in perspective and to help give back. It's also a lot of fun and creatively invigorating.

  

  Channing Dungey
  • Great
  • Help
  • Fun

• The simple model of a bridge is great, and you could not build a bridge without understanding it well. But if you're actually building the bridge, you need to know the site. A lot of economics is like that: When prices go up, demand is gonna go down. You can't forget that and run your economy. But it's not the only thing you need to know.

  

  Alvin E. Roth
  • Up
  • Great
  • Simple

• Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Leading
  • Roll
  • Golden Years

• It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Trying
  • Way
  • Effort

• When he Malevranche happened to find Descartes' book entitled Man in a book shop on the rue Saint Jaques, he leafed through it, bought it and "read it with so much pleasure that he was forced at times to interrupt his reading, so loud were the beatings of his heart due to the extreme pleasure he had in doing so". Those who never put down a book of erudition, science or philosophy, to catch their breath, so to speak, and recover from the strong emotion they experience, certainly ignore of of the most exquisite pleasures of intellectual life.

  

  Etienne Gilson
  • Science
  • Reading
  • Pleasure

• You truly have to make the very best of what you've got. We all do.

  

  Mary Tyler Moore