“When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.”

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American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, … 1954

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“I do indeed believe that there is a certain contrast between, say, people in scientific professions and people working in the arts. Often there is even mutual suspicion and irritation, and in some cases one group greatly undervalues the other. Fortunately there is no one who actually has only feeling or only thinking properties. They intermingle like the colors of the rainbow and cannot be sharply divided.”

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