Molly Ringwald Quotes
I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.
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I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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I love people, and the hustle.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was love. I have the notes, the valentines, 20 mixed tapes, all of it. It's important to keep that stuff.
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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I've been fortunate, I guess: I've gotten to play a lot of very diverse roles for quite a long time. But in the beginning, I was thinking, 'I'm not gonna do certain characters. I will be willing to say no and live on a couch.' And I was really happy.
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As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
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Having bands in the NFL would take up seats. If you take up seats in the NFL, you're losing money.
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When I was younger, I had some close friends who always loved European football, and Real Madrid at that time were the dominant force. I remember family holidays when we used to go to Spain, and we'd bring back replica shirts of Real Madrid and pretend to be the players when we played in the park.
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I was lucky enough to be able to grow and mature in a natural way as an actress.
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Jealousy does not wait for reasons.
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Research conducted throughout the world shows gender balance in top positions contributes to improved competitiveness and better business performance.
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Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy.
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I wish it to be thoroughly under stood that it is Mr. Seurat, an artist of great worth, who has been the first to conceive the idea of applying the scientific theory after making a profound study of it. I have only followed, like my confreres, the example set by Seurat.
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I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.
