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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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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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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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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When I'm writing, I separate from everyone. Even my band. I push myself, and I'm alone with my thoughts. Separating from friends and comforts and family lets you think a lot deeper about subject matter. Working alone drives me a little crazy, but it makes the writing as honest as possible.
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I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.
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Many appreciate in my former work just what I did not want to express, but which was produced by an incapacity to express what I wanted to express - dynamic movement in equilibrium. But a continuous struggle for this statement brought me nearer. This is what I am attempting in 'Victory Boogie Woogie.'
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Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.
