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 just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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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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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
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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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Richard Pryor is, in my mind, the most honest comedian. He bared his soul to people. I think that's why everybody loved him so much.
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Too much agreement kills the chat.
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I'm always really interested in different environments and how they affect people's lives and what it would be like to live somewhere else.
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J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history.
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I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing.
