Margaret Wertheim Quotes
If I could do anything in my life and be remembered for anything, I would like to be remembered for helping the world see the value of physical engagement with ideas.
Quotes to Explore
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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Reducing debt through budgetary consolidation is essential to restoring Europe's financial health.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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When you speak directly at things and don't say you're going to try to do something or that you hope to do something, the universe will work with you. Think about it this way - a boomerang goes out and comes back to you if you throw it. If you throw it out at the universe, it will come back down to you on Earth.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.
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Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.
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I'm obsessed with New York. I want to marry it, maybe bear a few children with 42nd Street.
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I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light. … Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.
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I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures.
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A lot of the aspects of the world of the film are amalgams of things that already exist.
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If I could do anything in my life and be remembered for anything, I would like to be remembered for helping the world see the value of physical engagement with ideas.
