Marcus Sakey Quotes
As the Occupy Movement demonstrated, it's tough to change anything when you're talking about everything.
Quotes to Explore
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Before I started surfing, I don't even know if I would have dived into the water at night alone. It was still scary.
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North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.
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Who doesn't love a 'Lifetime' movie? I think that they know their audience so well.
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I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.
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I find it fascinating to see the fact that women want to buy things that they see on men.
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You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it.
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I want people to see that I'm a real person, I overreact, I cry, I'm emotional. If I come across as perfect and in control, that wouldn't be who I really am.
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These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.
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Danny DeVito later told me that he knew he wanted me for 'Matilda' the second I walked in the door. I'm not sure if this is true, or if he was just being nice, but I was thrilled when I got it.
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Nunca amamos ninguém. Amamos, tão-somente, a ideia que fazemos de alguém. É a um conceito nosso – em suma, é a nós mesmos – que amamos.
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Male-female fusion does not create women’s rights. It creates a fusion of rights.
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If we had paused to tell the people that we were Marxist-Leninists while we were on Pico Turquino and not yet strong, it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the plains.
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I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind - an inability to chart a course whichever way the wind blows, whichever way the media encourages the people to go, you follow. If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.
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Anyone that gets to side four is dumber than I am.
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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
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All the Jews of Polish origin were being sent back to the land of their forefathers, and so the two gentle sisters kissed us and packed and left. We sent them packages in care of the Jewish community in Warsaw, but of course the packages were returned because it was illegal to send anything to Jews. So we took the advice of a wily neighbor, wrote the address in Polish, and like magic the packages arrived.
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Nature is reminding us that it used to exist without human beings.
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People want you to fail.
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If I was misogynist, would I hire a woman as my CEO? Probably not. I grew up in Denmark, for crying out loud. Denmark is probably one of the places where equality is actually fully achieved. Our political system is practically a matriarchy.
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As the Occupy Movement demonstrated, it's tough to change anything when you're talking about everything.
