Amity Shlaes Quotes
Grades can matter, especially for those students and parents who live for the next round of applications to graduate or professional schools. But there's a problem with the grade emphasis. Math or science graduates earn more than students majoring in the humanities.
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My parents owned a plants nursery. We all grew up growing things and planting things and selling things, and I also managed landscape crews.
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The characters in 'Ray Donovan' are not very articulate - we're the worst Irish family you could ever live next to in L.A.
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Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
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I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.
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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.
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I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.
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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
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My family lived in Thousand Oaks. In 2002, when I was 17, I begged my parents to let me move out. I had money, a real job, and wanted to get my own place.
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I mix talents and friendship, which is not very professional, but it's my way of thinking. So I love Azzedine Alaia, because I've known him for 30 years, and he's making my dresses most of the time.
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My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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We're not trying to make us live forever; we're not trying to even make us live significantly longer. What we're trying to do is extend the period of healthy life.
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Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
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We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
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I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.
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Atlanta is the number one place to live. You live better, you eat better, the rides are better, vehicles is better deals. It's better people. More mean people, but at my level you want it to be about business, so it's perfect for me.
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I live in a swimsuit so I'm really comfortable with my body.
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When you perform live, it's a different trip - it's different energy. I just felt a conflict between both of the trips. I was trying to evaluate what it meant for me to be a singer/songwriter and what that whole thing all meant.
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I was always writing. I've always been attracted to words and stories, communication.
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It's funny, the moment you dread the most, seeing yourself bald, is actually not such a bad moment at all.
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The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
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I do have a muse. I am not sure how to describe her. She can be very elusive. She was born in England but has Mediterranean ancestry.
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Grades can matter, especially for those students and parents who live for the next round of applications to graduate or professional schools. But there's a problem with the grade emphasis. Math or science graduates earn more than students majoring in the humanities.
