Tamzin Merchant Quotes
The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.
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Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
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I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.
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I always think about where ill end up 10 years from now.
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The great American food writer M. F. K. Fisher once wrote an essay called 'The Anatomy of a Recipe.' To have a good anatomy, in her view, a recipe should have a sense of logical progression. She despaired of recipes with 'anatomical faults,' where the reader is told to make a cake batter and only then to grease the loaf pans.
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'Somewhere in Time' is in the top-five cheesiest movies ever made. It's super melodrama.
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I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.
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The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.
