Garry Marshall Quotes
It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can have it all. You can't really have it all so easy. You can do a little of this and little of that.
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The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.
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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
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I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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Foucault's genius is to go down to the little dramas, dress them in facts hardly anyone else has noticed, and turn these stage settings into clues to a hitherto un-thought series of confrontations out of which, he contends, the orderly structure of society is composed.
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I love having my hoop earrings. Just regular gold hoops.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
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Khloe has the youngest hands. You can tell a woman's age by her hands, and she taught me that. She has way younger hands than I do because she's addicted to wearing sunscreen on them. I'm not consistent with it, but maybe that will be my new year's resolution.
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On 'Being Mary Jane,' I learned to embrace sex symbol.
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Bring together what is good for business with what is good for the world.
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When people don't get enough information, they make it up.
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Attempts to construct an ethic from the rules of evolution, or from psychology and sociology, end up being simply inadequate.
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It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can have it all. You can't really have it all so easy. You can do a little of this and little of that.
