Nancy Meyers Quotes
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Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters.
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I am a Westerner of Westerners!
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I like to think that I could praise the good book of someone I personally dislike. I try not to comment on the person, to be insulting, but I have no trouble being insulting to the work.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.
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Being born Roman and Romanisti is a privilege.
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I'm not exaggerating when I say that the 761st was Patton's best tank unit and nobody knew about it.
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I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
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I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
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I don't know how to cook, but I do know how to bake.
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God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.
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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.
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The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
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When you're on stage, the audience becomes your other half. It's the ultimate high you can reach as a musician - an incredible feeling. And no matter where I am it's still the same; there's a reason we call music the universal language.
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I always wanted to be loved.
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Show your instructions in actions as much as you can.
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I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.
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This is a robbery, boy, gimme them dollars. We hit the lottery, boy, it's in ya wallets!
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I really wanted to be a writer.
