Margaret Geller Quotes
One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to discover what the geometry of the universe really is.
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.
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I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
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I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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The person that was closest to me growing up was my sister, who died at 19. She was an incredibly powerful girl, deeply committed to art and literature.
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Sometimes you put things off. And you get addicted to putting things off.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to discover what the geometry of the universe really is.
