Mary Daly Quotes
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
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Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.
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My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
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The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
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My experience is that our intelligence officials try to do the right thing, but even with good intentions, sometimes they make mistakes. Sometimes they can be overzealous.
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It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
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I moved to L.A. after my landlord in Brooklyn tripled my rent. I spent months looking for other places to move to in New York, then one day I was in California eating a grapefruit, and I was like, 'This is what they taste like?' So I decided to move to L.A. and build a studio in my house.
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I never know going in if I've even got a movie to make. Once you start making a film, you hope there's going to be enough material! My job as a director is always to push for more.
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Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.
