Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.
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I know it sounds strange, but I'm one of those people who goes to a coffee shop to drink coffee.
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One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.
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It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.
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So-called reality TV, which dominates British channels, is destroying what made it cherishable to me and lots of others in the first place. I loved Alan Clarke, Ken Loach and Alan Bleasdale's work. In fact the first TV dramas I ever saw were 'Screen Twos' produced by David Thompson, who also produced a lot of Alan Clarke.
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I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.
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If you book the same models that look and act the same in every show - I get the continuity, and it is beautiful to see, but there's also no life to it. I'm personally not a fan of that.
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... people only count their misfortunes; their good luck they take no account of. But if they were to take everything into account, as they should, they'd find that they had their fair share of it.
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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
