Margot Lee Shetterly Quotes
The Russians had got a real head-start into space; America was playing catch-up.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
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There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.
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I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
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We should all love animals.
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New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.
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I did not start hunting until later in life. When I was a kid growing up in Pennsylvania, my dad worked at a steel mill, and we didn't have the means to buy guns or take off and go hunting. But I loved being outdoors. I built tree stands and ground blinds in the woods and pretended that I was hunting.
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I had a soap opera, and my next job was working with Kyle McLachlan on The Invisible Man.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doing in-depth stories on community-based organizations that have been struggling for a long time and who are out trying to get funds. They aren't interested in those stories.
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The Russians had got a real head-start into space; America was playing catch-up.
