Janet Maslin Quotes
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
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The U.S. should support the Nigerian government to stay in Sierra Leone under the ECOMOG umbrella. The U.S. should also support other countries, including Ghana, in ECOMOG until stability is established.
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Cosmonauts can keep their word like men and women - particularly women.
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The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.
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Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.
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I speak very highly of Jim Thome. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great individual.
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I have tried Botox, and I don't like it because it stops you being able to move your facial muscles which, as an actress, are essential. But I do have collagen injections.
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When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
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We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are.
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I am the odd man out in the family.
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God made the integers, man made the rest.
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Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.
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No single crisis shapes a generation; but a succession of events, each one bringing its shaping blows to bear.
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Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.
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'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'
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Life became a science when interest shifted from the dissection of dead bodies to the study of action in living beings and the nature of the environment they live in.
