Mary Halvorson Quotes
Actually, a lot of my influences were horn players. I really liked Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane and Miles Davis - people like that. My dad had a lot of those records. So when I started playing jazz primarily, it wasn't jazz guitar that I was listening to.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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You never know what the future brings.
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I don't like people lying; I like honesty.
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Compared to some of our neighbours, it's not frowned upon to be a mother and work in France.
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I'm apolitical. Where all that Conservative business came along from, I don't know.
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Remember that our Spanish conquerors, for their own benefit, deliberately created an oppressed underclass whose collective psyche became rooted in passivity and underachievement.
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Actually, a lot of my influences were horn players. I really liked Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane and Miles Davis - people like that. My dad had a lot of those records. So when I started playing jazz primarily, it wasn't jazz guitar that I was listening to.
