Nellie McKay Quotes
If we went back to the basics of vegetables, legumes, grains - the things closer to the Earth - it's a lot better for the Earth and for other people. We can feed more people, we can feed the starving people.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
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But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.
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While we can learn from U.S. models, we certainly can't practice them.
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We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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The best way to end poverty is to simply give people work, which isn't considered 'sexy' among donors who want to fund a preschool or cure a disease.
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I love working with younger people. I feel like we need to catch up with them. In South Asian art it's important to address the fact that the majority of what we see is Hindu, and based in Hinduism, and that it has a social and cultural history. Islam and Muslim culture are often now figured as these outside invaders who came into India, and this is in the service of a more right-wing nationalist discourse that is Islamophobic. And that's part of the worldwide Islamophobia moment that we're having right now.
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I think theater is so undervalued. I have seen things there that have been far more vivid than things that actually have happened.
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History is very much bound up in family experience.
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If we went back to the basics of vegetables, legumes, grains - the things closer to the Earth - it's a lot better for the Earth and for other people. We can feed more people, we can feed the starving people.
