Martin Puryear Quotes
The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology.
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
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I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn't be reached.
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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We need to build systems that can automatically figure out what's high quality and what's not, and encourage users to contribute high-quality content. There's a lot of technical challenges in that.
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EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
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At Juilliard, suddenly I was reading these great plays that could articulate the ways I was feeling in the Marine Corps, and that felt very therapeutic, by putting words to feelings, in a big way.
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The genius of Kate Middleton is that she hasn't gone too far. She's still dressing in a way that people can relate to.
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I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from nowhere, and suddenly see China's amazing opportunity. So women just seized the opportunity.
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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.
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Only by acknowledging the success and sacrifice made by those who came before us can we fully understand what we must do to ensure the liberty of those who will succeed us.
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In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors.
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Why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the possum that it could be done.
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I did try to go to college and try to be an English major.
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The social inefficiency of capitalism is going to clash at some point with the technological innovations capitalism engenders, and it is out of that contradiction that a more efficient way of organising production and distribution and culture will emerge.
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A house sold by A to B does not wander from one place to another, although it circulates as a commodity.
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The basic mission of the rating system is a simple one: to offer to parents some advance information about movies so that parents can decide what movies they want their children to see or not to see. The entire rostrum of the rating program rests on the assumption of responsibility by parents.
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I think music is the only thing that I'll ever really have.
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Flipping our classrooms into active learning spaces really is important and having these convenient spaces where people feel comfortable.
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I am counting on the private sector, because it is crucial to Senegal's future.
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If you have Trump avoiding income tax and money coming in, and then he's still able to control it and use it as if it was his income to help his interests, then you're starting to see a bigger legal problem.
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The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology.
