Judith Martin (Miss Manners) Quotes
Learn graceful ways of saying no and of pointing out that this pressure to do something is not in line with most people's wishes.
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There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback...' to 'The Hulk.'
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Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
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Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.
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I'm neither Democrat nor Republican.
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To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'
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We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilisation, we must deal scientifically with the brute element, using only genuine biological principles.
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I cannot handle dull, lazy, morose people. I have been like that since childhood.
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Why does getting ahead always have to involve getting up early?
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.
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Learn graceful ways of saying no and of pointing out that this pressure to do something is not in line with most people's wishes.
