Mildred Dresselhaus Quotes
People who have it too easy in early life have a disadvantage for later on, because they get to thinking that everything is going to be easy.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
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I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
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It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.
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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
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I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.
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If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
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The big challenge is looking ripped and lean without being too big because on camera, it's easy to appear thick.
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I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.
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I was the kid at six who was like, 'I want to be in a jazz club.' I was never the pop kid, ever. I mean that's not true, I had a couple years where I wanted to be Tiffany and Debbie Gibson, but aside from that, no.
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I don't want to see a world in which women can communicate on Twitter, but their actual voices are not heard.
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Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.
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Being in the presence of the "other" seems to show me who I am in a way that is really important to me. I feel radically more comfortable in Laos, say, than I do in Pennsylvania.
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The government only makes restrictive rules, they dont show you what to do so you know, OK, heres where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens.
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I've spent my life being embarrassed.
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People who have it too easy in early life have a disadvantage for later on, because they get to thinking that everything is going to be easy.
