"I thought, "Why? and how did we evolve……" — Meryl Streep
"I thought, "Why? and how did we evolve with this weak, and useless passion in tact within the deep heart's core?" And the answer as I've formulated it to myself is that empathy is the engine that powers all the best in us."
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128 Quotes by Meryl Streep
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Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who…
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Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.
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I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning.
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I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a…
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I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.
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Let's face it, we were all once three-year-olds who stood in the middle of the living room and everybody thought…
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It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have,…
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They were showing clips from my earlier films. All I could see was this beautiful young woman who was anxious…
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Wrinkled, wrinkled little star... hope they never see the scars.
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Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics,
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Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we…
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First I'm going to thank Don because when you thank your husband at the end of the speech they play…
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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