Merrill Markoe Quotes
I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see a wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is slowly scanning the ceiling for flies.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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I've always wanted my own fragrance; Avon pairs with the way I think: what they do and represent, what they do for women, and the good causes such as domestic violence, and breast cancer.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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We are all losers in comparison to Malala Yousafzai. But we are not all geniuses. Like me.
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You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.
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We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.
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I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.
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The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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It's been so difficult to watch people criticize me and my intentions.
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The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.
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My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.
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I'm not interested in disposable music.
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Don't let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.
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Who knows the origin of religion? Certainly not the one who believes in it. Understanding and belief are quite antagonistic. The man who understands religion does not believe in it, the man who believes in it does not understand it.
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You don't need to give reasons for the things you do- you just have to do what you want. And sometimes the thing that seems messed up to everyone else is what's right for you. You have to do it and not be ashamed of it.
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When you are totally defeated you begin again to enjoy the small things around you. Just going to the mountains, not for victory or glory, but to enjoy nature or enjoy fine people. If you always succeed you enjoy the admiration of many people. Being defeated means being limited to the basis existential choices of life. If you can enjoy the quiet evening hours it is beautiful; a hero who always succeeds may not have time to enjoy such things.
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Events are not a matter of chance.
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I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see a wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is slowly scanning the ceiling for flies.
