Gail Sheehy Quotes
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Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable.
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There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
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It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.
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I always believe that people can learn a broader skill set. You need good technology and solving a big problem. I always think that, at it's core, it's solving a problem; you're not building technology for the sake of technology.
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Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.
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The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.
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The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.
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I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.
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When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.
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I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked. A lot of my contemporaries have done more. I don't have 'I will be a movie star' emblazoned on anything, but I'd like do a bit more screen stuff and then when the time is right come back to theatre. When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.
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If I think about what life is, I believe life is a miracle. And if I think about what a miracle is, I don’t believe in it.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.
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I dare to do things - that's how I survive.
