Marlee Matlin Quotes

Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing they can, just differently.

Marlee Matlin

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I don't know if it's because my sensitivity is through the roof, but I can't stand contrived dialogue anymore.

Jeff Baena

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For me, I was a musician long before I was an actor.

Steve Kazee

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The eight years of war since 9/11 had meant several Christmases away from home for most of these men. For soldiers at war, there's comforting continuity in the traditions and inevitability of Christmas.

Stanley A. McChrystal

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I like to say time is a luxury.

Travis Kalanick

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I proudly tell people, 'I have no computer,' so as not to be ashamed of having no computer.

Tom Stoppard

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The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that this Administration has learned from its mistakes in Iraq.

Robert Byrd

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Before 'Lost Boy,' I was singing, doing six-second covers on Vine, working part-time and in school, but music was always my true love.

Ruth B

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You look at the large problems that we face - that would be overpopulation, water shortages, global warming and AIDS, I suppose - all of that needs international cooperation to be solved.

Molly Ivins

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I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it.

Miuccia Prada

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I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts.

Jonathan Haidt

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Dating is fun. It's light: There's courting; there's the interesting, exciting text messaging and flirting. There's no weight. When you start getting into relationships, you really start having to consider each other in your lives, and I think that's really important.

Denise Vasi

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I like being in charge. I like being able to control my own destiny and ideas.

Dawn Richard

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