Melora Hardin Quotes
I would say I grew up listening a lot to Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland and Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell. I grew up listening to those because my parents were kind of into folk music.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
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God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.
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I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.
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Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.
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The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
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To perform in front of a room full of people you go to school with would be terrifying. I couldn't do it now.
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You don't start shooting rockets at Israel and expect that we'll just sit back supinely and die.
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I love shopping in New York just because you walk around and find a little store you've never saw before, and you're like, 'Oh what's that? This is my new favorite place.' I love that about New York.
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I love the story of how my parents met because it seems very 1950s Brooklyn. They met on a brownstone stoop as my father was singing a little doo-wop.
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I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.
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The other thing that happened was that we have a tendency to project our own weaknesses onto another woman. I don't think men do that particularly.
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I would say I grew up listening a lot to Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland and Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell. I grew up listening to those because my parents were kind of into folk music.
