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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Medical science in particular will get exponentially better, especially once computers will be powerful enough to digitally simulate entire human brains, meaning medical experiments that would normally take years can be digitally run taking only hours.
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The history of religions reaches down and makes contact with that which is essentially human: the relation of man to the sacred. The history of religions can play an extremely important role in the crisis we are living through. The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence of meaning.
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To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
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Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.
