Eve Merriam Quotes
Don't be polite. Bite in. Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin. It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are. You do not need a knife or fork or spoon. For there is no core or stem or rind or pit or seed or skin to throw away.
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A happy wife is a happy life.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.
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In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
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The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.
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After graduating high school, Betty attended the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, the alma mater of both her parents. My mother relocated to New York because she refused to accept the oppressive racism of the Jim Crow south.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
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The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.
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'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.
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When Corporate America finds a Jayson Blair in its midst, the standard operating procedure is to circle the wagons and deny that any form of liability extends up the chain of command.
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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
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The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
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I always wanted to be an actor, but my top three favorite actors of all time are Al Pacino, James Dean and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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It is a difficult one, as you get scripts where women are just objects.
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Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.
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At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.
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Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather than reactive.
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There are friends and faces that may be forgotten, but there are horses that never will be.
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We, as designers, have a job with so many possibilities and connections. We are connected to so many different portals, from art to movies to music to design. Fashion is always evolving. Actually, the field is huge. I don't think there is another profession that is so open to so many possibilities.
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It’s like my greatest accomplishment in life so far, and I haven’t committed myself to anything for as long as I’ve committed myself to music, to the band and you know we’ve been through so many trials and tribulations and yet that didn’t break it, you know?
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The most important thing to me is how hard we go after the ball and take care of it.
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If some glorious angel suddenly descended through my living room ceiling and offered to take away the children I have and give me other, better children — more polite, funnier, nicer, smarter — I would cling to the children I have and pray away that atrocious spectacle.
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Don't be polite. Bite in. Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin. It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are. You do not need a knife or fork or spoon. For there is no core or stem or rind or pit or seed or skin to throw away.
