Meredith Baxter Quotes
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There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.
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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
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I grew up playing hockey and some football, and I always think about the first time you walk into the locker room on a new team. The cliques are looking at you funny, and you make one friend, but then they're trying to stab you in the back.
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Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.
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I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and I'm not even Pakistani.
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I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.
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When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.
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Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.
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I've got lots of friends who are musicians, so if they ask me to do things, I'll go and do it for a laugh. I don't want to be a pop star or anything like that.
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I watched the Bush administration overreact to the Clinton administration, who believed they did too much nation building, sustaining other countries, and that's why we never put the commitment on Afghanistan and Iraq that should have been in there under their policy leadership.
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When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.
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There is no religion higher than truth.
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I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.
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Taking care of your body, no matter what your age, is an investment.
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Be more concerned about what's right rather than who's right.
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Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.
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Whatever doesn't kill you, makes you watch a lot of Cartoon Network and drink mid-price Chardonnay at 11 in the morning.
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It's not like I'm a rookie pilot. In fact, I invented airplanes. And air.
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I can't stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We'll see what happens.
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Nothing is going to change the fact that I believe Ronald Reagan is the greatest president in my lifetime - may well be the greatest president this nation ever had.
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Concealment of negative facts that might influence a consumer to purchase another manufacturer's product is the essence of fraud.
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You just hope, if you make things as I do, that they can make their way in the world and have some longevity.
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I am a lesbian, and it was a later in life recognition of that fact.
