Ann-Margret Quotes
I mostly wear hats or put scarves over my head because I like to have a low profile when I go out.
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The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.
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There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
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I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
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No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
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I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old Testament tradition you find flames, the burning bush.
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We are not by nature cruel.
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And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.
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My most firmly held value is what Albert Schweitzer termed 'reverence for life.' I take this seriously; many would say that because I extend it to nonhumans, I take it too far.
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I love all types of braids. Single, multiple, box braids - I try them all.
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There are lots of women I look up to, but mentors are someone you talk to and not just admire. A lot of my friends that I trust are my mentors.
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You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
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I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worthy nor such a one as that he should grant this to me, since I know most surely that poverty and affliction become me better than delights and riches.
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Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us.
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If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, whereas if they write with all this duckweed on the surface, you can't tell if the stream is one inch deep or a hundred fathoms.
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You're always going to have extremists in every religion.
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With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it.
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Folks in Alabama seem like folks in Georgia to me. I feel like you can just about combine the two.
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Personally, I'd be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the kids and their grandparents would find themselves on the same side.
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My e-books sales have overtaken everything else, so I think all the marketing has become very much driven by the author now because of social media.
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Here is my recipe for a mood enhancer. Take a friend, preferably one with a really annoying fringe and outsize pants, and when she is rambling on swiftly, push her into a ditch and run away.
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Opposition is not necessarily enmity.
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The first time I held an African drum in my hands was at Koc University in a forest in the northern suburbs of Istanbul.
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We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.
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I mostly wear hats or put scarves over my head because I like to have a low profile when I go out.
