Marya Mannes Quotes
By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
Quotes to Explore
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.
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I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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I'm not really a fan of people who think they're better than others. There's no reason to act that way. I couldn't even stand to yell at someone if they bumped right into me.
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Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.
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There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
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India absorbs things; India's not a divisive place.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.
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Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
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You can't play having a mental disability. You have to play whatever that person's truth is without any judgement.
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Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.
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President Trump rightly points out that law enforcement is mostly made up of good people putting themselves in harm's way to protect us. He lauds the men and women in blue and often talks about the need to make it easier for the cops to do their jobs.
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I enjoy going to the beach, relaxing with my wife, going out to dinner, and having a good time.
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Nothing, literally nothing, makes me feel like I'm back to my body more than Pilates.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.
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By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
