Gene Roddenberry Quotes
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
Quotes to Explore
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
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Knowing this to be a worthless life to live, why do I keep living on? Because this life contains something called beauty7.
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That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.
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No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.
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If I start mining for opinions on hundreds of websites that have fan forums, I'll be totally distorted in my view of myself. I'll lose myself in all that.
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A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
