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.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.
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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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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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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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Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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We have a responsibility as elected officials to do good public policy in the best interest of all the people.
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The maimed bodies aren't the worst. That's the easy way to hate war. The safe way. I - hate it just as much for the maimed souls that stay at home.
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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.
