Minna Antrim Quotes

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

Minna Antrim

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Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me!

Stephen Colbert

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Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.

Stephen Hawking

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After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

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Sometimes, if I need assistance on the government level, I can appeal through official channels. For example, when I bought the New Jersey Nets, President Medvedev raised the issue with President Obama, who voiced support for the idea, which is always a nice thing to have going for us.

Mikhail Prokhorov

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It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get up and do things for us. We are trying as women to do things for ourselves.

Miriam Makeba

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Don't hold on to the barre like, 'I might die.' It's just ballet.

Misty Copeland

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My favorite was 'The Secret Garden'. I loved it, and I think it's had a big influence on all of my characters. 'The Secret Garden' is about transgressions and imperfect people.

Judith Viorst

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You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.

Judy Garland

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I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?

Doc Watson

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Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.

Brian Reynolds Myers

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I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.

Brian Wilson

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Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it all out there and be the best role model that I can be, if people want to put me in that kind of predicament. I mean, I didn't ask to be a role model, because I'm not perfect.

ASAP Rocky

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