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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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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I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
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It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.
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I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.
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I always say now it's the indifference that kills patients in the field and different populations. We have to break our indifference towards the suffering of people elsewhere.
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New technologies and approaches are merging the physical, digital, and biological worlds in ways that will fundamentally transform humankind. The extent to which that transformation is positive will depend on how we navigate the risks and opportunities that arise along the way.
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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.
