Marge Simon Quotes
I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of reading and adventures into what else is being done by other artists/writers and poets. Like breathing. I've written poems or fictions to go with a painting. The source for the inspiration of the art often eludes me.
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When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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Dormer by name, Dormer by nature: I love to sleep.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov
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I try and keep an ear out and keep an open mind and enjoy something where I don't know what the hell is going on inside of it. That's what I really get out of it. Because to me it's new. That's what I get out of it. That joyful feeling of you don't know what's going to happen next.
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The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.
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In the private sector, companies have experts running all over the place figuring out the details of how to solve particular problems, and then they share them with the rest of the organization. But in global health, global education, or global development, that’s been really difficult to do.
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At the surface, many people's goals are to lose weight, tone up, feel better, etc. But superficial goals get superficial results that usually fade. Dig a little deeper, and the 'why' is usually unveiled: to be more confident, to be more happy, to feel sexy again.
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Language is a social art.
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I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of reading and adventures into what else is being done by other artists/writers and poets. Like breathing. I've written poems or fictions to go with a painting. The source for the inspiration of the art often eludes me.
