Mary Tyler Moore Quotes

Diets are for those who are thick and tired of it.

Mary Tyler Moore

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• I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Earth
  • Like
  • Saying

• There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Very
  • Days
  • Humanitarian

• When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • School
  • Kids
  • Government

• You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Past
  • You
  • Mistakes

• Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Art
  • Business
  • Design

• People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • Me
  • Myself

• Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Up
  • World
  • Home

• I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Family
  • Wish
  • Child

• I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Up
  • House
  • Parents

• I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Wedding
  • White
  • Dress

• I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Want

• I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.

  

  Nadine Labaki
  • People
  • Country
  • Language

• The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Movies
  • Protected
  • Profits

• I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.

  

  Banks
  • Good
  • Music
  • Black

• There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Path
  • Yourself
  • Obstacles

• I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

  

  J. Cole
  • Life
  • Time
  • Spirit

• I don't separate things out between what's personal and what's my work. My passion is personal.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Personal

• Every woman deserves diamonds, and even if you can't afford to go out and buy diamonds for yourself or you don't have actual stone diamonds, I think when we look at ourselves we should refer to ourselves as a precious stone.

  

  Nia Long
  • Should
  • Looks
  • Deserve

• After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Process
  • Security
  • Laws

• What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Progress
  • Sin

• I was reading Emily Dickinson and Edwin Arlington Robinson, but these weren't the poets that influenced me. I think Gwendolyn Brooks influenced me because she wrote about Chicago, and she wrote about poor people. And she influenced me in my life by giving me a blurb. I would see her in action, and she listened to every single person. She didn't say, "Oh, I'm tired. I gotta go." She was there, and present, with every single person. She's one of the great teachers.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Giving

• Diets are for those who are thick and tired of it.

  

  Mary Tyler Moore
  • Tired