Madalyn Murray O'Hair Quotes
Legality can't create love if it isn't there, or preserve it if it's dying, but it can destroy love by making it compulsory.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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I really don't know life without wrestling.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
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I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.
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The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.
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The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
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There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
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The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.
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We want to be number one, from the ingestion of content to the play-out to any type of channel. Everything between there, you should see Ericsson if you are a broadcaster, telecoms operator, or cable operator.
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How did George Bensen cut 'In Your Eyes?' How did I work with the Backstreet Boys? It all comes back to 'Sometimes When We Touch.'
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested in living.
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In business-every business-the bottom line is understanding the process. If you don't understand the process, you'll never reap the rewards of the process.
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If you can help guide somebody through a challenging moment because you've been there, that ends up becoming a great gift.
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I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.
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The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort.
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Legality can't create love if it isn't there, or preserve it if it's dying, but it can destroy love by making it compulsory.
