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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The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.
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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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My favourite day is like when it's raining, and I can just lie on the couch.
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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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The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like; still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good.
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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
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There's a certain cruelty to being on a big screen as your eyelids start to sag and your hair falls out and turns gray that you either have to be able to handle or not. What you can't do is try to force yourself into roles that you could have played or would have played ten years earlier.
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Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.
