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 feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.
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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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I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you'll get into a state of constant despair.
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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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My typical paradigm is that I do believe in public service. My father's a military man. He really does always speak about the fact that there is actually nothing more valuable that you can do than actually to serve your country. And I buy that.
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The prize was really for the molecule. In 1962, Osamu Shimomura discovered a protein in a jellyfish that caused it to glow bright green. With colleagues, 30 years later, I was able to insert this G.F.P. gene into bacteria and make them turn green.
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I don't really like using ridicule as a form of humor.
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My hair's a pain in live performance. I'm always inhaling it: I almost choked to death a couple of times.
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I like to think Duke Ellington would probably embrace a fragrance as well.
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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.
