Mortimer Adler Quotes
A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
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I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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Younger customers are the future, but older customers have the money. So you need both: one for the present, and the other for the future.
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I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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I was a Girl Scout!
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It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.
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The reality is that not only were we massively hit in 2008 when the bubble burst, and then we realized how deep the social gap, the economic gap in the world is between the super rich and the poor; also, we realized how impacted the environment has been. So there's been a physical consequence of that.
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I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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How do you make yourself not like someone?
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If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.
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Obviously, when you're up against somebody you don't like there's extra motivation, but I don't think any person going for an Olympic gold is going to put friendship first.
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A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.
