May Sarton Quotes
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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I just want to do my job.
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When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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With acting, I've always gotten by in life acting in situations. I'm a small person. I didn't have a chance to be a bully. But I could always act myself out of tough situations.
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I will not be collateral damage in a presidential campaign, nor will I be a woman bullied by Hillary Clinton.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.
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Might it not be that a great force that has always been thinking in terms of human needs, and that always will think in terms of human needs, has not been mobilized? Is it not possible that the women of the country have something of value to give the nation at this time?
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The first time I toured with the 'Large Band' in 1988, I got so tired. If I just stood still anywhere, I could go to sleep. I was that tired. But I had to perform. And I did, and after that tour, I was much less fretful about going out onstage.
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I was a pretty independent kid. I thought maybe I'd be a veterinarian or an environmental lawyer.
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I came in as an engineer and worked on artificial intelligence at Google. I worked on related sites and matching advertising to queries with some of our earliest ads.
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Getting the blood moving through your body does do wonders for your complexion.
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Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
