Merle Shain Quotes
Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you’d like them to be, although often they turn out the same

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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.
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'Outlander' is progressive in the way it looks at women.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.
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Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
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The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
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Just making a movie the way 'All is Lost' had to be made was a great experience, because it was structured differently than any other film I will make for the rest of my life.
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Consumerist ads brainwash us into individualist and egotistic self-love.
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At least three times a week, I'm approached by someone who says something about 'Fargo.'
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I'm a good friend.
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E cada instante é diferente, e cadahomem é diferente, e somos todos iguais.
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Art, rightly applied, provided humanity with the symbols, insight, and vicarious experience necessary to help one person place him- or herself in the shoes of another, and by so doing come to appreciate the commonality of human experience.
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Sometimes people walk into plays by accident - they don't even know what they're looking at; they just think to give it a chance. That can be the beginning of a long friendship.
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There are people in this country who have waited for decades for affordable health coverage for themselves and their families.
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Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.
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I'm the eldest of four children: a brother next after me and then two sisters.
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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I'd been reading Eastern philosophy since I was a kid. And I meditated. I did it on a daily basis. It's the one thing I do with any consistency. Meditation gives you a different kind of mindset. It's very powerful.
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I was just the youngest in the family, and most in desperate need of attention.
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Be as happy as you want to be in a world gone mad. Be as safe as you want to be in a world that is afraid of everything. Be as healthy as you want to be in a world that is mostly sick. Don't let the statistics that someone else created affect you.
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Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you’d like them to be, although often they turn out the same