M. Ward Quotes
One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
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I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
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When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.
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For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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People that don't know me get 'Mossed'. It means, I was gonna go home, but then I just got led astray. In the best possible way, of course. I mean, it's always fun, and a good time.
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I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
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What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.
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The time to change was yesterday; the time to wake up is now.
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I did get to hang out with my dad for a little while. I went with him to summer stock. I watched him be a real king of the world. He'd ship out as a star in summer stock. He sometimes directed the shows. I learned a lot from him - not just about acting, but about everything, how to handle a woman.
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Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
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Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.
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One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.
