Joyce DeWitt Quotes
Shirley Maclaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too.
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
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I'd love to get into the hospitality industry, but I just don't have the time.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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Our government should not be spying on the electronic communications of American citizens. Nor should our iPhones or Android devices be subject to unreasonable searches and seizures.
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What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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I was scared to fly for a long time.
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Sometimes it's hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn't just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.
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In terms of pace, I think I just have to revisit my relationship with expectations. That has a little bit to do with comparing ourselves to other people and seeing other people's journey and seeing how they had a certain success at a certain age.
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I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.
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In my stories, whenever there's somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that's me!
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If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.
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And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.
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... none seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing, but from the abuse of a very good thing.
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No one stopped buying I.B.M. because Tom Watson wasn't there, but they stopped buying Elizabeth Arden because she wasn't there.
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It's always about bringing in the numbers, the viewership. That's what gets you the money.
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The constant pressure to be the perfect, ideal female - there's no such thing.
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We don't want to read a book. We want to live an experience.
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There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn't drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale. I don't think there's any question that New York City's very tough laws have reduced violence.
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That's what the drummer is supposed to do. Keep the time. If you can do something else besides that, fine. But the time is essential and non-negotiable.
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Shirley Maclaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too.
