Margo Jefferson Quotes
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Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
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I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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In France and other European countries, film stars are more celebrated. In Germany, if we are good at what we do, we are respected but not acclaimed. And, of course, we are not paid like Americans are.
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
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Taleggio is the perfect cheese to melt over a warm dish.
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I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
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Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
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That's kind of the weird thing that M. Night Shyamalan has sort of unleashed upon the world is this need for every movie to have these ridiculous endings.
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People struggle with moments of deep dread about life and moments of surety. Often within the course of the same day. Life is a roller coaster, especially if you take risks.
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You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.
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I like to do one thing at a time and do it to the best of my ability.
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When people start reconfiguring marriage, there's no going back.
