Meredith Ostrom Quotes
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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.
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It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing, why would I do that? I ain't got time for this, just be happy and don't be stupid. If I've got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I'm not worried.
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The sun was shining like a congratulation.
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That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.
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When it comes to sexuality, sensuality, self-representation, self-nurturance - America fails in those departments.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.
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We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves.
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When we started this band, we always concentrated on the songs. If we had five good songs together, we wouldn't just slap four more 'okay' ones together just so we could go out and play. That's why we spent so much time in that spoon factory in Sheffield before we went out to play. We did that first gig only because Steve was so pissed off and threatening to quit if we didn't go and play a gig. But there was always that feeling there - that we have to do it right. Or we don't do it at all.
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Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony.
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I appreciated art, long before I could produce it.
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The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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I think about 'The Simpsons,' which has been going on for 25 years. Homer is still in his late 30's. Lisa is 8, Bart is 10. Their stories are told. Yet the series keeps going on and on like a zombie that won't lie down and die. That feels forced and unnatural. The characters never change, grow, age.
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I was so sensitive and touchy in a way that my character would never be. I was so protective and defensive of young girls, and sex in general.
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If NATO troops walk in Crimea, they will immediately deploy their forces there. Such a move would be geopolitically sensitive for us because, in this case, Russia would be practically ousted from the Black Sea area. We'd be left with just a small coastline of 450 or 600km, and that's it!
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Im too sensitive and too sincere.
