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Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.

We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.

I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.

Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.

My friends tell me that I've calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don't know, I think my inner self was more hollow before, which made me more scattered, and more needy to get laughs.

I seem to always inspire a strong reaction one way or the other.

Now, an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but, in fact, the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person.

Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!

And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.

But doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.

If you've seen a photo of me from when I was a kid, I don't think anyone would have expected that going in front of the camera was something that I was going to do. I can't believe how little effort my parents put into making me seem like an appealing little girl.

The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time.

Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.

No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.

But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all.

These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion; or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.

Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not.

Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.

I admire them for making their way up and opening new opportunities for other Latin newcomers. Latinos have come a long way and the roles and opportunities just seem to be improving.

You think you have some stable talent that will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across to the audience once, you can't imagine that moment when it suddenly will. Gradually, gradually you gain that confidence.

'Penthouse' didn't seem to concentrate as much on the girls' faces, and I really wanted to see the girls' faces. It seems like through the 1980's, they almost went out of their way to obscure the girls' faces.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

I just play to good people; they seem to like what I do, and the more they like it, the more I play.

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

Well, I think in trying to make life seem real enough that one is moved to do something about the more atrocious things. By going really far afield into a completely fake world, maybe there's a chance to make things resonant somehow - or in this case, truly terrifying. To make it as bad as the real stuff that's happening.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

They say baseball is a slow game. It sure doesn't seem that way when you're in the dugout. You think you have it figured out, but things come up quick.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.