Marian Seldes Quotes
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Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.
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I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
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I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.
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The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
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But more than anything I kind of pride myself in continuing the process that we're trying to accomplish, and that's just to get better and work on my fundamentals. So that's been kind of in the theme now for a couple years and we stuck with it and that's kind of what I want to keep doing.
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The land and the ocean are living, breathing entities that supported us, clothed us, fed us, and nurtured our culture from time immemorial.
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Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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When in doubt, do it.
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Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.
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Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.
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I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.
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Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
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There is torture of mind as well as body; the will is as much affected by fear as by force. And there comes a point where this Court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.
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'I’ll do everything I can to help, I promise.''You always have,' Emily murmured. Except tell me the truth about anything.
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8: A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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No one at all understands why it is possible for the plant cell that bears within its substance one of these green chlorophyll bodies to combine certain inorganic elements into nutritious foods, a feat that no human chemist can perform.
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Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
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People who cannot think in an orderly way are apt to suppose themselves more imaginative than others.
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I struggled with being a Latino growing up in Los Angeles. I felt very American. I still do. I went to 35 bar mitzvahs before I went to a single quinceanera. I could talk all day about my culture and what it means to me.
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We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.
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I love being with someone, taking care of someone.
