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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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 never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.
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I'm a television junkie.
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The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
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There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
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Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with a hook, a situation, a 'what if.'
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The Russians had got a real head-start into space; America was playing catch-up.
