Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate from the camera. There is also great sensitivity to the women whose stories are being told - never did I have a sense of the subjects being exploited.
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Gee I don't know, I just want to get home.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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I received free health care.
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My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.
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Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.
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Doing new stuff live is tough just simply because I pay my money, I stand in my seats, and I see the guys I love. And if I paid that ticket, there's a good chance that I'm there to hear the stuff that made me fall in love with 'em - we call it the 'old stuff.'
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When the six-year-old daughter of a friend of mine overheard her father telling someone that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize, she asked whether I had ever received it before. He replied that the Prize was something you could get only once. Whereupon the small girl thought a moment: 'Oh' she said, 'so it's like chicken-pox.'
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The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.
