Mara Brock Akil Quotes
Any form of media is an opportunity to be a mirror and reflection of what we are experiencing more in the details of our life. What makes it fun and unique in a lot of ways is how that journey is changing just by the mere fact of the current time.
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that.
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
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I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
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What you see is what you get. I don't change who I am from public to private.
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But I live an interesting life and I can tell a pretty good story and it has helped my career. But the downside is people know everything.
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It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.
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When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.
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Any form of media is an opportunity to be a mirror and reflection of what we are experiencing more in the details of our life. What makes it fun and unique in a lot of ways is how that journey is changing just by the mere fact of the current time.
