Marya Mannes Quotes
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
Quotes to Explore
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The image of the unions is still not in tune with where we actually are, which is fifty-fifty men and women, with an increasing number of women at the top. I think it is changing, but I'm not complacent about this.
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The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.
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After watching me in a larger-than-life character in 'Magadheera,' the audiences didn't accept me as a college–going boy in 'Orange.'
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
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People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
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Our high school didn't have a crew team - we started the crew team.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
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He couldn't believe that his last words on Earth would be "she's my rocket ship
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We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.
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What the world needs today is neither a new order, a new education, a new system, a new society nor a new religion. The remedy lies in a mind and a heart filled with holiness.
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It's extraordinary what that song has been used for - I think a lot of people who have gotten into trouble, have attached themselves to that song, and I think a lot of it is Kate's wonderful voice is there, in a sort of reassuring and loving way, and it just makes them think that perhaps there is going to be that type of love out there for them.
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I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.
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In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
