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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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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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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The holy trifecta of directing and filmmaking is character emotion, camera movement and music. When you hit those three, that's magical. That's what I'm trying to do.
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I'm not a publicity hound, I hope.
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Never allow sick attitudes to poison your thinking, nor let ill will make you ill. Avoid making your mind sore by that painful rehurting called resentment.
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I've been thinking, in an age of Trump where you don't know the direction of the country, the person you need most is a steady conservative hand like Mark Kirk in the Senate to be advising the president, especially on national security topics ... which is my particular expertise after 23 years in the Navy.
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Hyatt lost its appeal because it was too big a machine. It's easy to systematize economies of scale, but you slowly lose who you are.
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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
