Margot Lee Shetterly Quotes
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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I've never tried to measure myself on any scale. A person is more multifaceted than the label they often get stuck with. On the other hand someone's whole behaviour allows you to characterise them in a certain way. This person has liberal convictions, that person has conservative ones, this person is a radical socialist, and so on.
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I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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I want to keep telling stories of ordinary people.
