Maya Rudolph Quotes
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
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I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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We don't go against the will of the people.
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Nobody is going to hand you a music career.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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Dream and you shall become.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
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If I am making a spice rub or a spice mix for a braise or even just to crust a piece of fish, I'll use mustard seeds. If you soak them in a little bit of vinegar and let them get plumped and soft and then you puree them, they're delicious.
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There is a divine purpose behind everything - and therefore a divine presence in everything.
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I never thought I'd get a chance to do what I'm doing. It's such a dream.
