Mary Astell Quotes
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
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If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.
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I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to write. We had to write something that was good and to sit up with a great guy like Art Blakey and watch him.
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If I could pass along anything that my mother or my sisters taught me, I feel like my kids would be very well off.
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On the death penalty:(the argument that it costs more to appeal death row convictions than to imprison someone for life.) 'Ken Starr gave me the perfect comeback on that,' she scoffs. 'How many millions of dollars were we willing to spend to show that the President had oral sex?'
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Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman.
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It was so good to see Irma's face when we made this album, ... She did us proud.
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The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.
