Judith Rossner Quotes
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I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John's, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sweden. They read the textbook twice, or three times or four times.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
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If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
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It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.
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The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.
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If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn't do it.
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Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
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There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.
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The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.
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I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.
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I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.
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A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.
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I walked into a gunfight with a knife to kill you, and cut you so fast when your blood spilled it was still blue.
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I'm related to Davy Crockett on my mom's side. Honest.
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I really want to feel that I'm in a very balanced and good place in my life. And I do feel that. But I think it's always important to learn and draw little bits of inspiration from wherever we can.
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Sometimes we make decisions because it seems to be the only path visible at the moment. It's only later that we see there was more than one path, but the others were blocked from our vision at the time. That's the thing with hindsight, you see. Even if you can see it clearly, there's no going back. It's at that point we need to turn around and stare ahead and make a new life.
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I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.
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I do a lot of traveling overseas.
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What I wanted to do was to earn enough money to pay for my mother's house. When my mother passed away, I wanted to buy it from the rest of my family and keep the house in the family. That was the only reason I even attempted writing for money.
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I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing.
