Marge Simon Quotes
They say that Grandma Moses had several canvases going at the same time. Maybe it was a way for her to catch up with the time she missed while raising children and tending the farm. Like Grandma, I tend to have more than one poem or fiction going at a time. For me, it's just the way I think.
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I think we know how to do Mars.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.
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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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I'm not averse to telling people off.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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Don't be afraid to fail. You're going to go on a million auditions, and most of them you won't get. It's very easy to think, 'This is not going to work for me,' but keep at it. It's very generic advice, but you have to be willing to keep yourself in the game.
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I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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I believe in the stability of my country. I believe in unity.
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Sometimes, once a fight starts, you have to do what you have to do to win.
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You can't be sent away to prison for life and feel OK about it.
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Airbnb was born out of necessarity. Our rent went up. It was born out of a problem.
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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
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I didn't go to university; I hardly went to school, but I grew up among people well versed in Henry James and Proust, and just felt this endless, total inadequacy.
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The future influences the present just as much as the past.
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It isn't the mountains that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
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They say that Grandma Moses had several canvases going at the same time. Maybe it was a way for her to catch up with the time she missed while raising children and tending the farm. Like Grandma, I tend to have more than one poem or fiction going at a time. For me, it's just the way I think.
