Gavin Schmidt Quotes
If the models are as flawed as critics say you have to ask yourself, 'How come they work?'
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Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
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I work with gold that holds our past and diamonds that see the future and rubies that long for love. It's just a way of telling a story.
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I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.
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I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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As professional soccer players, we take our bodies to the extreme. We're the people at the gym that look like we're breaking the machines. Pushing our bodies to the limits is what makes us so strong and capable and Olympians. It's not an easy thing to consistently do over and over again to your body.
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While it was refreshing to finally see an openly gay man speak at a Republican convention, it doesn't remove the stain of selecting Mike Pence, America's most anti-LGBT governor.
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The Internet's like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really mean things. It's fine, I believe in freedom of speech and I think people should think what they want, but I don't care to hear it.
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What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.'
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.
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VH1 Classic is the destination for people who would be interested in a music talk show.
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Some people do really find fault like there's a reward for it.
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Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.
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I like to make people laugh and have fun.
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Americans were told repeatedly by President Bush and Vice President Cheney that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found.
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The beauty of the space station, and of human spaceflight, is that it is now at a level of maturity where you can invite people on-board, which is what I worked so hard to do on social media and all the videos I made.
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I still have a lot to do, a lot to improve.
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Sometimes I take off my skully and wear glasses, so I've gotta brush and make sure my hairline is straight.
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If the models are as flawed as critics say you have to ask yourself, 'How come they work?'
