Merrill Markoe Quotes
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Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.
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My college friends call me Karu, which is the worst. Only in our country can we make a short form for a short name. But otherwise, I've never had a pet name all my life. But now, in official meetings, someone will call me KJo. And I'll judge that person in my head. Just call me Karan.
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Nothing was made in Trinidad.
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If you have less weight, you have less strength.
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NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts.
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'Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?'
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Remarkable what a fragile flower romance is. A gun with a nervous operator behind it can spoil the whole thing.
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The tug-of-war between Scientologists and anti-Scientologists over Hubbard’s legacy has created two swollen archetypes: the most important person who ever lived and the world’s greatest con man. Hubbard was certainly grandiose, but to label him merely a fraud is to ignore the complexity of his character.
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Your sex have such a surprising animosity against one another when you do differ.
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I'm going to continue to try to strike a balance, because I really, really do love doing stand-up, and I don't see why it should affect the acting.
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Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
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The image is an image.
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Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.
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If I have free time, I want to go to the beach, walk around a shopping mall, go grocery shopping. Live a little bit of life.
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When I was stationed in Germany, Johnny Cash was already a legend over there because he'd done some shows, then gone off to some bar straight afterwards and played just for the troops. So he was a real hero.
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I just got on Twitter because there was some MTV film blog that quoted me on something really innocuous that I supposedly said on Twitter before I was even on Twitter. So then I had to get on Twitter to say: 'This is me. I'm on Twitter. If there's somebody else saying that they're me on Twitter, they're not.'
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I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that was the only thing I wanted to do. And it had to be flying from sea carriers. Airfields were not enough.
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Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.
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What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.
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If I talk to a woman for more than five minutes I can tell you exactly whether she's an Aidan girl or a Mr. Big girl. Aidan girls are more interested in nurturing relationships and building a nest while Mr. Big girls are more about show and having fun.
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Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.
