Mary MacLane Quotes
I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.
Quotes to Explore
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I never ever Google myself. That way madness lies.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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I know that might sound silly coming from someone my age, but I remember on my 14th birthday having a crisis like my mom should be having. I kept thinking that I was getting older, and I haven't really accomplished anything. I remember thinking that I better accomplish something real soon.
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People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.
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I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.
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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.
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Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
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Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
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There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.
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There's a fine line between physical and thug ball, and the Knicks have crossed the line on occasion.
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The thing about the max is, you're worth whatever somebody is willing to pay you, in my mind.
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I don't have to be glamorous all the time.
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Actually, I really wanted to play against Venus because I have so much respect for both Serena and Venus.
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My family was always playing music; I always enjoyed it. My cousin, who is a little older than me, he started playing music, so I wanted to, also. I asked my dad for a guitar, and he got me a banjo, so that was my introduction to playing. I played it like a guitar. I had a few lessons, learned out a few chords, and figured it out right away.
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I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.
