Naomi Weisstein Quotes
It's as if women are in a totally rigged race. A lot of men are driving souped-up, low-slung racing cars and we're running as fast as we can in tennis shoes we managed to salvage from a local garage sale.
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I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
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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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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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There's the part of my life that the public and I share together. And there's the part that's mine to keep for myself. And that's mine. For me.
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There is a very deep conviction in the heart of the people who work in al-Jazeera that if it changes its editorial line, it will very quickly lose its audience. Al-Jazeera has its own style; it has more than 3,500 employees, and I don't think anyone will have the attitude of changing it because they will lose.
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
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When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history buff, so our home was a virtual library, covering every author from Beverly Cleary to James Michener.
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Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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It's as if women are in a totally rigged race. A lot of men are driving souped-up, low-slung racing cars and we're running as fast as we can in tennis shoes we managed to salvage from a local garage sale.
