Mary Callahan Erdoes Quotes
There is no substitute for hard work. There is a little luck along the way, but there is no substitute for really super-hard work, first in, last out.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
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The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.
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One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
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But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.
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I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.
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Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.
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I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.
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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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We have to tokenize in order to normalize.
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Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.
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I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.
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In 2006, I became the fist American to be allowed to go visit their astronaut center in China in Beijing. I think that it makes sense for the U.S. to work with China in the future and I hope to see, if the political atmosphere between the United States and China allow for us to do more cooperation together, especially in the area of human space flight. I think in the same way that it's help improve the relations between the U.S. and Russia; it would help to improve the relations between the U.S. and China.
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I admit the last couple of years shows were not up to par.
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The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.
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There is no substitute for hard work. There is a little luck along the way, but there is no substitute for really super-hard work, first in, last out.
