Mary MacLane Quotes

I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

Mary MacLane

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• Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Interest
  • Test
  • Studies

• Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Hell

• Mr. Trump, Americans can't afford, and don't want, to worry about the latest lawsuit filed against their president. And you're not immune from these suits once you enter the Oval Office. Anything you've done before taking office is fair game.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Done
  • Game
  • Worry

• I was never really a Mod. I thought I was more of a beatnik with the brown corduroy jacket, blue jeans, etc. I loved the music Mods liked, and I loved the clothes, but I didn't have any money to spend on them.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Music
  • Money
  • Thought

• The difficulties of many European countries derive from their corporatism: state projects serving cronies and vast social protection programmes, both run by elites. These surged in the 1970s and 1980s.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Run
  • Protection
  • Serving

• Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • World
  • Economy
  • Legal

• I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Live

• I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish living together. If they're raising children who believe they're honored and loved, that's all that's important.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Children

• Don't get in arguments with your coaches. If you have a certain opinion, express it to the best of your ability. But don't get on his bad side.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Bad
  • Best
  • Opinion

• I've gravitated towards independent cinema because you have to work harder in studio scripts to flesh out characters, particularly female ones. They are not as sharply edged, they tend to be quite watery. They are not renderings of women as I know them.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Work
  • Women
  • Independent

• Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement - they have only tried to be men and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Men
  • Women
  • Wish

• Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary. Improvement is not compulsory; it's voluntary. But to survive, we must learn.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Learning
  • Improvement

• You see, there’s a fundamental connection between seeming and being. Every Fae child knows this, but you mortals never seem to see. We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Connection

• Thou laughest that a child cries o'er its broken doll;- The things o'er which thou mournest-are they not playthings all?

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Broken

• 'There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance'

  

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

• In a world, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • World
  • Suffering

• We are not a Party of unbridled, brutal capitalism, and never have been. Although we believe in personal responsibility and personal initiative in business, we are not the political children of the 'laissez-faire' school. We opposed them decade after decade.

  

  Anthony Eden
  • Believe
  • Children
  • School

• People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of entrepreneurs trying to raise money at the low end and find that they can't get funding because of this mismatch. I think that there is an opportunity there.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • People
  • Trying
  • Money

• I am a small-town girl.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Girl
  • Small

• I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted.

  

  Aminatta Forna
  • Up

• If you're crazy enough to put your hat into the ring of speculation and punditry, you're going to get some turbulence. But if it's coming from some journalist with a comfortable degree of body fat, I'm not losing any sleep over it.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Crazy
  • Sleep
  • Enough

• I was a young girl the first time I learned about the concept of paying it forward.

  

  Lynn Schusterman
  • Time
  • Girl

• There's something very powerful about going after what you want seriously.

  

  Nolan Sotillo
  • Powerful
  • Going
  • Seriously

• I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

  

  Mary MacLane