Melissa Manchester Quotes
I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
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Having a son is not all pleasure.
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I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
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For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep reliable dictionaries and textbooks at his elbow; eschewing as far as possible that hasty extemporaneous manner of writing which is the privilege of more advanced students.
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I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.
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I was at a book convention, in a cab. On one side of me was Arthur Schlesinger; on the other side was William Manchester - real heavyweights. All they were doing was asking me about Charles Manson. The only thing that enables me not to be bored is the people talking about it - they're so interested.
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When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.
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We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.
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There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.
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Fashion will take on added stature one day, but try not to be stifled by it. You will learn, as you mature, to swap heels for Stan Smith trainers, minidresses for crisp white shirts. And you will never be one of those people who just roll out of bed.
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How convenient if you could ring up Harrods and say ‘Please send along two good murderers, will you?’
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I've had tremendous opportunities in film and continue to have them, but it's such a different thing to do a television show, and I'm very lucky to be able to do them both.
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The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.
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I had written for the theater and didn't know that I knew how to write for film. Ultimately, I think it's just trusting your voice, trusting your characters, and then telling them in a different medium.
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We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it.
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I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.
