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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And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.
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And the jocund rebecks soundTo many a youth, and many a maid,Dancing in the checkered shade.And young and old come forth to playOn a sunshine holiday.
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It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.
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To me and my band, guitar riffs are what it's all about. We know that every time we jam on a great riff, we've got a fighting chance of writing a great song!
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But if they didn't think it was a joke, or if anybody took it the wrong way other than a joke, when you make a mistake like that, you've got to apologize. So I apologize to anybody that might have taken it the other way.
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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.
