Mary Tyler Moore Quotes
When the doctor said I had diabetes, I conjured images of languishing on a chaise longue nibbling chocolates. I have no idea why I thought this.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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All my books are optimistic!
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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I am Lebanese, and I know the interests of my country.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
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I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
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Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.
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The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
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With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?
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It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.
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I grew up in big cities my whole life, and in my late 20s, I just felt like I was looking for something else.
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I was an old tackle riding around talking to people about sports. Like I've said to a lot of people over the years, 'I only go where old tackles go, and if an old tackle does not belong there, I'm not going.'
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Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society. They took it for granted, except when that contribution or its lack directly affected men.
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In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they've made and why they've made them, to be able to acknowledge when they've made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.
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As an actor, you should always keep your trump card hidden from your audience. I want the audience to keep expecting more and more from me. I want to do 'different' work - good and memorable roles - so that audience appreciate me more. That's why I love to surprise my audience with something they never expect me to do.
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When the doctor said I had diabetes, I conjured images of languishing on a chaise longue nibbling chocolates. I have no idea why I thought this.
