Mary Schmich Quotes

I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.

Mary Schmich

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What does it take to be the first female anything? It takes grit, and it takes grace.

Meryl Streep

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Plenty of people out there think of me as the Antichrist or the devil incarnate because I do not affirm the literal patterns of the Bible. But the fact is I can no more abandon the literal patterns than I could fly to the moon. I just go beyond them.

John Shelby Spong

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What I've realized is most leaders cannot reinvent themselves at the CEO level or at the operational level.

John T. Chambers

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I will say that I know Nirvana did a show and played a few chords from 'More Than a Feeling' before they did 'Teen Spirit,' and it wasn't very good. But in all seriousness, 'Teen Spirit' was a great song. If subconsciously or somehow I had any influence on that, I'll take that as a compliment.

Tom Scholz

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Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school.

Mike Wallace

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They're getting me involved in intrigue again, and I think it follows a classic formula in a soap opera.

Michael Zaslow

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Immigration policy should be set and enforced federally.

Luis Gutierrez

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My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.

Jose Maria Aznar

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I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.

Josef Albers

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Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

Dennis Prager

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I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.

Donald Pleasence

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My parents always taught me that my day job would never make me rich; it'd be my homework.

Daymond John

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