Linda Vester Quotes
I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
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Maybe because I'm a child of the '80s, but for me, a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original, then you don't understand the second one. Like 'Back to the Future 2.' If you haven't seen the first one, you're not going to get anything out of 'Back to the Future 2.'
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
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I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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I want to be president because I have the sensitivity, as a woman, to listen. I'm a different candidate... different because I don't belong to powerful, privileged groups, because I'm honest.
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That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
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I was taught by my parents that people who are loud don't have anything to say. I've found if you're suggesting quite big changes, a quiet style may be reassuring.
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Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
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Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.
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I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.
