Mary Tyler Moore Quotes

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

Mary Tyler Moore

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• I'm going to continue to work to be the best player in the world, and whenever that doesn't sound fun to me anymore, that's when it's over.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • World
  • Work
  • Fun

• I want to win football games.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Want
  • Football
  • Win

• I love charity thrift stores. Amazing one-of-a-kind pieces at terrific prices, and all the money you spend goes to a good cause.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Good
  • Money
  • Cause

• Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • May
  • Day

• Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Want
  • Control
  • Creative

• There are always going to be critics... and I have always had a rule: no matter how good the commentary is, or how bad the commentary is, it's more important that you do what you think is right.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Good
  • Important
  • Bad

• I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Feeling
  • Brain
  • Dominant

• I represent the 'Wonder Woman' of the new world.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • World
  • Woman
  • Wonder

• In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the original script and add asides, soliloquys and even new scenes. The main characters all get a soliloquy or two - or in Luke's case, several.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Writing
  • Freedom
  • Star

• By packaging a full album into a bundle of music with ringtones, videos and other combinations and variations, we found products that consumers demonstrably valued and were willing to purchase at premium prices. And guess what? We've sold tons of them.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Music
  • Products
  • Consumers

• Some people start a sport just to reduce weight, or some say, 'My doctor ordered me to run and do exercise', and for others, they run for completely different benefits. But it is not like that with sport. We need to eat, we need to rest, but also we need to run.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Different
  • Rest

• I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Know
  • Me

• It's always good to walk in a room and know everybody kind of looks up to you because I guess I've earned it.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Up
  • Good
  • Know

• Among the old Norse, it was the custom for certain warriors to dress in the skins of the beasts they had slain, and thus to give themselves an air of ferocity, calculated to strike terror into the hearts of their foes.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Air
  • Old
  • Dress

• I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up and write for about an hour, beginning right around 8. I definitely have coffee first, and then I start writing. I do think it's kind of hard to get the right level of concentration without coffee.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Day

• We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Interesting
  • Humanity
  • Human

• I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film, which is bad because it's how I make my living, but I am not a beauty and on balance I am glad.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Film
  • Balance
  • Beauty

• I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Time
  • Family
  • Finish

• Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Lies

• Was it probably true that reasoning beings were equal? It seemed more like a belief than a fact, even if I agreed with it. If you followed logic all the way back to its origin, did you inevitably end up at point of illogic, an article of faith?

  

  Rachel Hartman
  • Up
  • True
  • Way

• No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Good
  • Actor
  • Say

• Nothing is ever enough for me. I'm always thinking what is wrong, what needs to be fixed.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Thinking

• A man whose eyes love opens risks his soul - His dancing breaks beyond the mind's control.

  

  Farid al-Din Attar
  • Man
  • Control
  • Dancing

• Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

  

  Mary Tyler Moore