Missy Franklin Quotes
For me, it seems to help me take the pressure off if I don't pay attention to what other people are telling me.
Quotes to Explore
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.
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We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
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Just as physical exercise is a well-known and well-accepted means to improve health for anyone, regardless of age or background, so can the brain be put 'into shape' for optimal learning.
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I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.
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I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.
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Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.
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My favorite artists are Kanye West, Jay Z, the Fugees, Lauryn Hill, Destiny's Child.
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Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
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A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
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Tugend ist zur Energie gewordne Vernunft.
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Embrace a diversity of ideas. Embrace the fact that you can disagree with people and not be disagreeable. Embrace the fact that you can find common ground - if you disagree on nine out of 10 things, but can find common ground on that 10th, maybe you can make progress. If you can find common ground, you can accomplish great things.
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When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.
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I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.
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Once you've got a big feminist and political justification for talking about how you went round to Benedict Cumberbatch's house and did period all over his sofa, then there's no reason not to tell that anecdote in the middle of a dinner party.
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Sitcoms are designed for normal people who just want to turn on their TV and get a laugh. It's not high-brow, you don't have to work so hard, and it's meant to be a relatable genre. That's why I love it so much - my fans are from 8 years old to 80 years old, because everybody can relate to what's funny.
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For me, it seems to help me take the pressure off if I don't pay attention to what other people are telling me.
