Mackenzie Astin Quotes
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Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?
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If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
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My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cure for diabetes. There's no place better to give the money to than the Juvenile Diabetes Association.
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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If you create great opportunities, people around the world will come support your dream.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.
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Sometimes we all work so hard to overcome various things, and we are very cruel as a society and tough on people who we think aren't trying hard enough.
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I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.
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I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.
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I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.
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To people who traditionally charge $10,000 for a 3D animating app, we say you should be free-to-play and generate a revenue stream. Think of a 3D modeling package almost like an RPG.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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You can always plan where you think your life is going to go but I don't think you can really plan your future.
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If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.
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I'm starting to cry. I'm remembering those years I struggled with my weight, those times when I saw my reflection in a store window and didn't know who that fat person was, years when it was a big accomplishment for me to exercise at two dots on the StairMaster. And now I'm finishing a 26-mile race. Damn! This is better than winning an Emmy!
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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
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If you believe you can only go so far, it is an obstacle.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
