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'm just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don't know if I'd have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.
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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 feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
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I post pictures that I want to post and say what I want to say. If that's three times a day or three times per month then whatever.
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[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer.
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Let's find new ways, better ways of doing business so that our industries can prosper and our environment flourish at the same time. The right to produce is not the right to pollute. America must prove to itself as well as to others worldwide that it has the ability to clean up the garbage it has left in it's wake.
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So you've just slept with him, given him your virginity, a man who doesn't love you. In fact, he has odd ideas about you, wants to make you some sort of kinky sex slave.
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My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do
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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.
