Margot Lee Shetterly Quotes
I guess it's inevitable that I would become somebody who would write about scientists.
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I don't think even one per cent of the people in this world explore more than 10 per cent of all that this world has to offer. That's a shame!
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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I read somewhere that abs are made in the kitchen, and I'd like to agree. I like to think that I try to eat pretty clean, pretty good food.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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Too many African countries have already hit rock-bottom - ungoverned, poverty-stricken, and lagging further and further behind the rest of the world each day; there is nowhere further to go down.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.
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I make my own face exfoliant at home, using finely ground rice powder mixed with milk or yogurt. I also treat my skin to a honey, rose water, glycerine and lemon face pack. The honey moisturises, and the lemon removes impurities.
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I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.
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In England, rain was thin and cold, and made you hunch up inside your coat, walking home from the bus stop. In Jamaica, it was wide and thick and invited you to step into it, and see how wet you could get, and be thrilled that it was warmer than the sea and warmer than your skin; it was abandon.
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Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.
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I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
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Using cold facts and figures, leaders throughout the West must become more transparent with their citizens in explaining their decisions and their choices in global markets.
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The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.
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People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.
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I am livid with rage, sitting here in chains through this mad war which kills any meaning of life... My nerves are shattered and my mind darkened.
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Being faithful in that which is another man's qualifies us to receive our own.
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I've always been intemperate in my affection for food.
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I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.
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The competition is not really friendly or peaceful. It leads to oppression in some ways.
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Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
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I guess it's inevitable that I would become somebody who would write about scientists.
