Meryl Streep Quotes
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.
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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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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
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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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What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.'
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Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
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Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.
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I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.
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In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.
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It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
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It’s harder to say no when you really mean it.
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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'No I'm not no loser, I'll see you in Hell.'
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I definitely talk about my love of metal to audiences, and I sort of realized it was always natural and never, 'Well, I'm going to be the heavy-metal comedian.'
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I always felt God had called me to serve within the church because of what the church stands for. This has always been home.
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I think all people's lives are controlled by their decisions. You look at people's lives - it's not their conditions, it's their decisions. So everybody has a choice and every moment in your life you're making decisions.
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Jesus is, and always has been, a person we can expect to be doing things we don't expect him to do, in the places where we don't think he'd be, with the people we didn't think he'd be with. His enemies were those who dedicated themselves to obeying every rule in the Bible. His best friends were sex workers, social misfits, and everyone else the religious leaders had declared were "out." I believe our spiritual journey gets much richer the moment we accept this, and accept that Jesus seems to have not just opted out of our boundary systems entirely, but is actually busy walking behind us and erasing the lines we've drawn.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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I was born in St. Louis, but I'm from Maplewood, New Jersey. Maplewood is completely different than the rest of New Jersey. It's very small. It's quietly affluent but more low-key. Lauryn Hill is from my town, though.
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What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.
