Melinda McGraw Quotes
When you're a regular on your show, that's your family. When people come in and out, it doesn't mean that you don't embrace them, but they have to leave.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.
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It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
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It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.
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So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.
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Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did.
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The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.
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The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
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We can't all be like Ryan Seacrest... the perfect platform manifestation of a human. I don't know if we all have those gifts for restraining our emotions... or whatever it is he does.
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Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood.
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I love seeing what people wear out to dinner in different cities. I know how differently I dress in New York than I do in Los Angeles.
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It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.
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Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
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Improper parental example in the home is a leading cause of the wandering of youth.
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It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that.
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When you're a regular on your show, that's your family. When people come in and out, it doesn't mean that you don't embrace them, but they have to leave.
