Mary Halvorson Quotes

I think jazz guitar isn't very ladylike in general. Not that it shouldn't be.

Mary Halvorson

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• In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Men
  • Father
  • Son

• I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Age
  • Started
  • Menopause

• I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Peace
  • Garden
  • Movement

• I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • School
  • High
  • Start

• I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.

  

  Harland Williams
  • People
  • Character
  • Think

• My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Home
  • Mom
  • Walk

• I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • Like
  • Feel
  • I Feel Like

• That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• I always had a short bob with bangs, and I hated it. My mum would always say, 'A short hair cut is always the way to go for you.' I had it for fourteen years!

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Hair
  • Years
  • Short

• I normally work out six days a week. I'll do Pilates on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, and I'll do cardio on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Work
  • Week
  • Six

• The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Meaning

• I don't have to put on a front. If I had to, it would be difficult and tiring.

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • Difficult
  • Would
  • Front

• I've done a lot of other shows in the U.S. that have been great, but I knew that 'Roadies' was something special. I feel very, very fortunate.

  

  Tanc Sade
  • Great
  • Done
  • Special

• For my body, I like high-waisted jeans because they make your leg look longer and hides this extra thing on my stomach. You can eat extra food with it because it hides, and I like to tuck in my t-shirts.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • High
  • Food
  • Body

• If China wants to spend $10 producing a product and sell it for a buck, who benefits from that? I think we do. I'm the free market guy. I think free markets work.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Work
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  • Guy

• 'FlashForward' was a dream come true. I had auditioned for David Goyer for 'Blade: Trinity' and didn't get the part, but I guess he became a fan.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • True
  • Dream
  • Come

• It was tough to make weight against Cerrone, and I passed out three times making weight for the Eddie Alvarez fight. One day you get to the limit.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Day
  • Fight
  • Tough

• Yesh Atid is a Jewish, religious-secular party. Our DNA is center - both Left and Right. The difference between center-left and center-right is more emotional and hereditary than having to do with what people think about the Palestinians.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Think
  • Party

• The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules believed to be absolute.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Society
  • Strong
  • Emotional

• Our companies are based on mutual respect and loyalty to each other. And that works — when you really mean it, the people who work with you know it, and when they do something special you pay them a little extra.

  

  Doug Morris
  • Respect
  • Pay
  • Works

• Americans have the right to say what they believe. But with that right comes the responsibility to respect our neighbors, respect law enforcement, and obey the laws.

  

  Max Baucus
  • Believe
  • Law
  • Respect

• Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep. It's always in the middle of the night, or you're half-awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is. Every time you try to put your finger on it, it slips away. You turn on the lights and the cockroaches run away. You can never grasp them...

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Songwriting
  • Demon

• I think jazz guitar isn't very ladylike in general. Not that it shouldn't be.

  

  Mary Halvorson