Frances McDormand Quotes

I'm not an actor because I want my picture taken. I'm an actor because I want to be part of the human exchange.

Frances McDormand

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Anything you get involved with, you are supposed to make money.

Joe Jackson

MoneyYouAnythingInvolvedGet

When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence.

John Bolton

LifeYouClassicWouldThanHappier

I think President Trump is trying to distract the country away from the failures he's had - the inability to get a health care bill that both sides could come together on.

John Hickenlooper

HealthTogetherThinkCareTrying

I try desperately to try and figure out how they'd react to different scenarios. That's part of what the DM's job is: to try and know their players well enough to where they can build encounters, challenges, and be like, 'I think they would do this in this scenario, so I will go ahead and prepare a few options based on this.'

Matthew Mercer

JobChallengesThinkEnoughGoKnow

While, in general, life satisfaction goes up with wealth, beyond the safety net more and more wealth brings very radically diminishing returns on life satisfaction.

Steve Jurvetson

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I was born in Russia in 1901 of Jewish parents and came to the United States in 1922 to join my father, who left Russia for the United States before World War I.

Simon Kuznets

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The press is supposed to watch the powerful. And not throw in with them.

Roger Ailes

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Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

Mason Cooley

TimeFoodAmazingThinkingEnough

But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically.

Marvin Harris

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I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.

Joseph Stiglitz

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I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September.

Jon Scieszka

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When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world.

Dee Dee Myers

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