Meredith Monk Quotes
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.
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Metaphysics is a science.
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If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.
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The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.
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I should be concentrating on writing pages.
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After having seen the job done on that first show of mine, I realized that I felt like I wanted to work again for a short while. Two, three years, then stop.
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I know little about the women of my own race...
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Mind your till, and till your mind.
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I think there's a green side to John Kerry, if you like, that he's an environmental activist. His record on the environment is as best as you have on a pro-environment record of anybody in the U.S. Senate.
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The horrific damage of 9/11 did not end when those buildings came down.
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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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If Bitcoin is a better gold or seen as a type of gold-like asset, then it could be in the trillions on a market cap.
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There aren't many woman coaches in general, and I actually think it's good to have a male coach. Guys and girls have different mentalities. Girls are so stressed about everything. Guys take everything much more lightly. That's great, and it's something we have to learn from. I think one woman on a team is enough!
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How else to make a dent in an object as immovable as patriarchy itself...?
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I remember when people used to think I was smart. I remember when people used to think my brain was useful. Damaged by water, sure. And ready to seizure at any moment. But still useful, and maybe even a little bit beautiful and sacred and magical.
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Tremble: your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now.
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The mass is the spiritual food that sustains me, without which I could not get through one single day or hour in my life; in the mass we have Jesus in the appearance of bread. While in the slums we see Christ and touch him in the broken bodies, in the abandoned children.
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When you start worrying about form, then you're not in the moment.
