Solon Quotes
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Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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It wasn't really until the 10th or 11th grade when I started to play well, and football took the place of baseball, which was my love when I was five years old. I don't know what happened; baseball just got boring to me, I guess.
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The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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I love working in New York.
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I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.
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I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.
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If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'
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Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
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I tend to eat vegetables only when I'm with the kids and the rest of the time, I'm a bit slack. But, I am weight-conscious, so I concentrate on avoiding junk food.
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Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.
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One of the laudable by-products of the Freudian quackery is the discovery that lying, in most cases, is involuntary and inevitable--that the liar can no more avoid it than he can avoid blinking his eyes when a light flashes or jumping when a bomb goes off behind him.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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It was fun playing a horrible, snotty kid in 'Harry Potter', and then playing Prince Charming where I was also singing and playing guitar, and then playing a completely different character.
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I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.
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A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'
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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
