Mary MacLane Quotes
My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.
Quotes to Explore
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If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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GIS, in its digital manifestation of geography, goes beyond just the science. It provides us a framework and a process for applying geography. It brings together observational science and measurement and integrates it with modeling and prediction, analysis, and interpretation so that we can understand things.
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Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
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My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.
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I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.
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My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
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I learn my songs by ear.
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You have to open up on stage.
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It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.
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Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
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... this idea, that humans are essentially weak creatures, is actually deeply woven into a lot of the ways in which humans think about our bodies.
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All greatness in style begins, I imagine, with such respect, deep and passionate enough to produce a humility which will not assert itself at the expense even of inanimate things: out of which submissiveness a desire to serve is born, in disinterested accuracy toward the object, whatever it may be.
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Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious; it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious.
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Then twangling their bibles with wrath in their nostrilsFrom Bonehill Fields came Bunyan and Blake:'Laredo the golden is fallen, is fallen;Your flame shall not quench nor your thirst shall not slake.'
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My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.
