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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No secret that for some years - long before my time - Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.
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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'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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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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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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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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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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I never really saw my dad as entertained as when he was just completely blown away by somebody on the television screen or at the movies. I think that's the real reason that I went into acting.
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Being in a band is a really magical thing because you've got a family and you operate as this one entity. It's very democratic; everyone is involved in the output. But within that, there can be a lot of disagreements and strife.
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I just get makeup from wherever I can. From Maybelline to Chanel - you know, all over the place.
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When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.
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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.
