Mary Wesley Quotes
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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
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With 'True Grit,' the language was very specific, as is Shakespeare. You couldn't really improvise, nor would you really ever have to. I never felt the need to. It was all so beautifully written, and it was all right there.
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Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.
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The government of Iran has no problem with the American nation.
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If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of our waking hours working. So it becomes this incredible window into a whole variety of things: who we are human beings, how the economy works, how people relate to each other, how stuff is made, how the world spins on its axis.
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My brother and I were separated when I was a child; we went with different parents.
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I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.
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Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants.
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At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.
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My mother, actually, is a therapist.
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I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died.
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By the end of 'Swan Lake,' you know how there's all the corps on stage, and she keeps running in the back, doing arms? You can't feel your arms. You're just like, 'Ow.'
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It seems the EPA has worked hard to devise new regulations that are designed to eliminate coal mining, coal burning, usage of coal.
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside.
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Peace the offspring is of Power.
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What are you doing with a car here in 1860?
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'Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought 'I' is the first thought.'
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A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis.
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The Life Cube Burn is cathartic, fun, exciting, and even reverent. It's a spectacular opportunity to put a sense of finality to the event. And when those thousands of written "wish-sticks" inserted into the Cube from all kinds of people combine with the art and shared messaging from the write boards in a blaze of flame and a column of smoke and ashes, it becomes a communal and very spiritual moment.
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Napoleon was later to comment that it was better to have one bad commander than two good ones with shared authority.
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New York is a character, all on its own, and whenever you film there, it becomes part of the show. That's just the nature of being there.
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Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.
