Mary Gordon Quotes
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The intelligence community really is a vast bureaucratic entity, and it has been politicized in ways that are not effective for the gathering of intelligence and giving it to senior policymakers.
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I respect all women who came before me to blaze trails into the workplace for us.
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I do hold very strongly that tea is better in England. There's something in the milk. They must have special cows.
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I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.
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When someone is playing drums, they aren't actually moving around a space; they're just moving their arms and limbs. They're stuck behind the drum set. So to film someone playing the drums and make it feel as kinetic as a car chase or a shootout or a battle scene was the challenge.
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You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount. Remember, we are creatures of habit and, therefore, the habit of managing your money is more important than the amount.
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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.
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For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.
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How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.
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I wrote a techno song after I was deported. I was in America for a little bit, but then I was deported back to Germany. I was very sad.
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'Don't come crying to me if your homes are attacked. You will reap what you sow'.
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The First Amendment isn't about free thought and free opinion and free belief. The First Amendment is about free exercise-the carrying into practice of religious principles, and beliefs, and convictions.
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Who knows why some satellites come by and by while others disappear into the sky.
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I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.
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Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.
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I enjoy a character who sticks to her guns, who's always challenging herself. That's something I can relate to.
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I wanted to have more songs with religious backgrounds. The Christmas record has strong, traditional hymns, but it also has a song called 'Christmas in Heaven' about missing someone that you love that's passed on, and wondering what's going on up there on Christmas.
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You know, I always when people ask me, like, what is my most favorite song, I quote Duke Ellington, when they would ask him, what's his favorite composition? And I say, I haven't written it yet. Because, you know, there are different songs for different occasions.
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I want my paintings to give the viewer a true sense of reality - that includes but is not limited to depth, scale and a tactile surface as well as the real sense of what the subject looks like and is feeling at the time that I painted them. There should be a discourse between the viewer and the subject, to feel as though they are in a way connected. My goal is not to set a narrative but rather to have the viewer bring their own experiences to the painting and the subject as they would if they had seen the subject on the street in real life.
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We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.
