Jami Gertz Quotes
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
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I know I look super young.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
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When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people.
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Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
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I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.
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I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.
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Since its founding, Brooks Instrument has been producing devices that measure and control the flow rate of fluids used in manufacturing processes. And for all those years, the company has relied on the standard marketing package for its sector: earnest, information-crammed manuals and brochures.
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There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.
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God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
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I got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That's how it started.
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May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is - and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.
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There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves.
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So, do I think I'm missing something? I really don't, and I think that comes with age.
