Merle Shain Quotes
The romantic myth is so strong that it survives the wear and tear of marriage by simply detaching from it and floating up on ahead, and women who are rather fond of the men they married, as well as ones who are not, go through life with a bag packed for the day when the shining knight on a white charger arrives, just in case he does.
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We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.
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Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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We think that without cooperation with the Russians, we cannot achieve our goals.
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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
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And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.
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And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.
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When it's colder, your skin needs more attention.
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I just take it as it comes, and if I'm not offered something, there's always a reason, and usually it's a pretty good one. I'm not worried about it. You know, I've had an incredible career, and I'm blessed.
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If I can, I love staying in pajamas all day and watching movies and eating good food.
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I feel like I have to move violently once a day, or I'll lose my mind.
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In men this blunder still you find,-All think their little set mankind.
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I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters.
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It wasn’t what was done to you. Life was what you did with what was done to you.
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With a 100-year perspective, the real value of the personal computer is not spreadsheets, word processors or even desktop publishing. It's the Web.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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I love L.A. I'm such an L.A. person.
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You've got to trust your instincts, your judgment and trust the storytelling that came before and the quality of the acting with the emotion.
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The romantic myth is so strong that it survives the wear and tear of marriage by simply detaching from it and floating up on ahead, and women who are rather fond of the men they married, as well as ones who are not, go through life with a bag packed for the day when the shining knight on a white charger arrives, just in case he does.
