"My own sense of well-being and purpose in……" — Meryl Streep
"My own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. That comes from studying the world feelingly, with empathy in my work. It comes from staying alert and alive and involved in the lives of the people that I love and the people in the wider world who need my help."
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128 Quotes by Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep has 128 quotes on this site.
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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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If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.
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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion…
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This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries,…
— Margaret Chan
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When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny,…
— Kirstie Alley
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I will! I am! I can! I will actualize my dream. I will press ahead. I will settle down and…
— Robert H. Schuller
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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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The land retains an identity of its own, still deeper and more subtle than we can know. Our obligation toward…
— Barry Lopez
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With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and…
— Thorstein Veblen
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In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do…
— Walter Savage Landor
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Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Mindfulness is Buddha's word for meditation. By mindfulness he means: you should always remain alert, watchful. You should always remain…
— Rajneesh
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