Mary Tyler Moore Quotes
The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like articulate comedy.
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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The skyline in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope' is made up: no, you don't get the Waldorf and the Chrysler and the Empire State buildings and a dozen other magnificent structures in one window.
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When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new.
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Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers. Even if they do not, however, he is sure always to count as one of the great personalities of philosophy. From our perspective it is easy to mistake one for the other; which he is time will tell.
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The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like articulate comedy.
