Alice Hamilton Quotes
From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands.
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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Coming to another hockey Mecca like Toronto makes you a better coach. I want to have fun again. I want to make it fun for everybody, and it's fun when you win.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
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For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
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I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
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I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.
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I remember in high school thinking that I wanted to be a lawyer, and now I realize I saw that movie 'And Justice for All' when I was a kid and thought, 'That's what lawyers do, and I want to get up and yell and scream in the middle of a courtroom.'
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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
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The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
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The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.
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When I'm making documentaries, I think a lot about how fiction films play. I want them to have the pacing, the twists and the character development of fiction films.
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Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made.
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I joined the Safe Climate Caucus because I believe in leaving a safer planet for future generations.
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I am recognizing that the voice inside my head Is urging me to be myself, but never follow someone else Because opinions are like voices, we all have a different kind.
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From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands.
