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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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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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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I'm an awful driver. I'm not going to lie about it. I'm not a good driver. I tried for a long time to pretend that I was. There's a lot of road rage and a lot of times it's directed at something I've done on the road.
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The last couple of practices, all we've been doing is a lot of defensive things. We've been going over some drills that make all of us have to communicate.
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I never think about rhythm versus melody; I've always just played to what's in my head.
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I realized that I've lived half my life already, and it's time to believe in - and stand up for - myself.
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I listened to classical music. I listened to jazz. I listened to everything. And I started becoming interested in the sounds of jazz. And I went to a concert of Jazz at the Philharmonic when we lived in Omaha, Nebraska, and I saw Charlie Parker play and Billie Holiday sing and Lester Young play, and that did it. I said, 'That's what I want to do.'
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There is no right to a job or a wage rate, but there is a right to move from one country to another in search of a better life. This is the point of view of Thomas Jefferson, John Locke and other great supporters of the natural rights tradition in America.
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In school, I never really grasped drawing the nude form.
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You ought to try eating raw oysters in a restaurant with every eye focused upon you - it makes you feel as if the creatures were whales, your fork a derrick and your mouth Mammouth Cave.
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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
