Daphne Merkin Quotes
How much simpler it would be all around if you could put your mind in a cast, like a broken ankle, and elicit murmurings of sympathy from other people instead of skepticism (“You can’t really be feeling as bad as all that”) and in some cases outright hostility (“Maybe if you stopped thinking about yourself so much ”).
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The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.
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Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.
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I was afraid the other musicians might want to present themselves too much, though I see in the coverage I've received of the album that the musicians got wonderful reviews for their contributions and abilities. I think the four musicians played freely within my limits.
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What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
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My hair is such a statement that it's like a neon sign asking for trouble.
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I love playing these characters that are crazy tough, though. Because I am not in real life. Not at all.
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Now and then I find a kitschy series I love.
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It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.
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I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business.
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The tabloids so easily throw people under the bus for a one-day sensation on the newsstand but sadly don't care about the long-term damage it does to those involved.
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I think I'm the most private out of my family.
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Do you think the Chinese think twice about hiring a hacker with a mohawk or a tattooed face? No.
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It is sad To see the light of beauty wane away, Know eyes are dimming, bosoms shrivelling, feet Losing their springs, and limbs their lily roundness; But it is worse to feel the heart-spring gone, To lose hope, care not for the coming thing, And feel all things go to decay within us.
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My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled.
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There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day.
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How much simpler it would be all around if you could put your mind in a cast, like a broken ankle, and elicit murmurings of sympathy from other people instead of skepticism (“You can’t really be feeling as bad as all that”) and in some cases outright hostility (“Maybe if you stopped thinking about yourself so much ”).
