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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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 have found I'm leaning toward more vibrant colors because I'm so happy in them.
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Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.
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We need to understand the other side to impact the other side. We become much more effective as humans and leaders when we engage in hearty conversations with those who are different from us, not necessarily to change our opinions, but to build the empathy muscle.
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He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.
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But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.
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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
