Mary Lou Williams Quotes
One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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Too clever is dumb.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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Cheapness is a great virtue.
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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder, the concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women's voices?
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The Old Vegas is gone. It's not that it's necessarily better or worse; it's just totally different.
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We should know who's walking into the voting booth, and I would support anything we do to make sure that our elections are secure, that it's only citizens voting.
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One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.
