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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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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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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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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Anyone can look beautiful.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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Because Social Security has not contributed to our debt, Americans should be skeptical of any politician who says that benefits Americans have earned must be reduced in order to address our national debt.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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I try to let my game speak for itself.
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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.
