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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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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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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Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.
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Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.
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I gave away 'Life in Hell' when it was a little 'zine, and sold it at record stores for $1, and I knew from the time that I first did it that I would continue to do it, because it was fun.
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No government should ever be big enough to substitute for the family.
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The headlines are never in the news! And so, what I am saying is the news is never on the headlines
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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I've found it to be true that sometimes a stranger can give you advice that stays with you, utter truths the closest people in your life have trouble saying.
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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.
