Margaret Wertheim Quotes
When I was a physics major in the late 1970s, my very few fellow female students and I had high hopes that women would soon stand equal with men in science. But progress has proved slower than many of us imagined.
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The world is always in movement.
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.
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I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
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I'm not a huge fan of my work.
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As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.
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You can be romantically interested in someone and love them and still, I think, be really interested in things and a certain lifestyle that person might provide.
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Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
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Now quantitatively we rank things on something called alpha over standard deviation, which is the return independent of the market divided by volatility. Usually, to get a high ranking, you need some buying pressure.
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Campaign promises are, by long democratic tradition, the least binding form of human commitment.
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In the ultimate analysis, all of us would have served Pakistan better if history and our future generations judge us positively.
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Prayers truly from the heart open all doors in Heaven.
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Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men. Unrecognizable.
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When I was a physics major in the late 1970s, my very few fellow female students and I had high hopes that women would soon stand equal with men in science. But progress has proved slower than many of us imagined.
