Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Quotes
In Tunisia, where women have long enjoyed greater rights than many of their Arab neighbors, women pushed for and won a new electoral code that guarantees women will make up half of a candidates' list for office.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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The world is always in movement.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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I studied Morse code.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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I love simplicity.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'
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We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
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It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
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'Normal Heart' was my most transcendent moment as an actor.
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So many of us don't know what we want; we just know we don't want what we have. We spend 99% of the time talking about how bad it is, but only 1% of the time talking about how we can do something about it.
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Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.
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In Tunisia, where women have long enjoyed greater rights than many of their Arab neighbors, women pushed for and won a new electoral code that guarantees women will make up half of a candidates' list for office.
