Stephanie Coontz Quotes
Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary.
Stephanie Coontz
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In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.
Katee Sackhoff
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
Ed Weeks
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
Rachel Sklar
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I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is material consciousness. At the other end is what we call 'field' consciousness, where a person is at one with the universe, perceiving the universe. Just by looking at our planet on the way back, I saw or felt a field consciousness state.
Edgar Mitchell
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Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.
Oscar De La Hoya
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
Jack Paar
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
Magnus Scheving
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The truth is I love musical theater and always have.
Idina Menzel
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Apparently, I get facials and manicures all the time. I read this and think, 'Oh, I wish I did that!' I don't think I've had a facial since I was 19.
Kate Beckinsale
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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
Fran Lebowitz
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Stuart Murdoch is a really special human being - really creative, but also really kind and gentle.
Hannah Murray
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I'm an idiot.
Kate Mara
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Thank God, I have sort of a pan-European accent rather than Russian, which doesn't sound very pleasantly to Americans. For them, we speak with a rather rude pitch, and that might be our actors' problem there. Now I've begun working with language coaches in Los Angeles to get rid of the accent completely.
Yuliya Snigir
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I'm not a Republican, but I was one once - when I was 7 years old. Not my fault. The symbol of the Republican Party is an elephant, I'm a Hindu - I was confused.
Hari Kondabolu
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You don't want R&B singers to get into beef. Leave that to the rappers, let them do that - R&B, be classy.
R. Kelly
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The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.
Salman Rushdie
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In my opinion, villains are so much more interesting than heroes. So 'Suicide Squad' is just like, wow, so damn awesome.
Harley Quinn Smith
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The Republican Party I grew up in was a Republican Party of family unity.
Ana Navarro
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On a movie set, there's so much down time, adjusting the lighting. It gave me time to nap, call my friends, relax, work out. But with TV, there's no break time. None.
D. B. Sweeney
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Airships could be part of the answer to Africa's infrastructure woes - if the financial challenges are overcome.
Jens Martin Skibsted
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Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary.
Stephanie Coontz
