Mary-Louise Parker Quotes
I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
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Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of people that already were legally affirmed. Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.
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I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.
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But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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Someone once said, 'Adversity introduces a man to himself.' For some reason, that's scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger.
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It's hard to get fluffed up about love anymore. I've lived it. I try to avoid it. If I'm extremely fond of a woman, if I think I might really wind up walking down the aisle again... I go in another direction.
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I feel like I'm 100 years old. I can't tell you what I did today. I can't tell you what I did for seven years. I can't tell you. It happens so seamlessly - I'm just floating along and seven years go by.
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... greatest single programming language ever designed. (About the Lisp programming language.)
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Anything that changes your values changes your behavior.
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I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it.
