Martha Graham Quotes
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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In 1953, Mom and Dad, living in Toronto, discovered, to their shock, that Mom was expecting. I was born in June 1954. My parents, thrilled, showered me with love.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.
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No process of reform will succeed without national reconciliation. ... National reconciliation will take time, but for the sake of our common humanity, and for the sake of this country’s future, it is necessary to stop incitement and to stop violence.
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I've done my work and I'm happy with it... I respect my father very much, but I'm a very different person than he was.
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The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.
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[Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and bad ones it ceases to be science and becomes a mere nuisance, like theology.
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If I am confirmed as secretary of labor, I intend to keep faith with the men and the women who still work at jobs like those my parents held.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
