Maceo Parker Quotes
Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal?
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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There's a history where, when women get to a certain age in this industry, the roles become strictly the mother, the wife, or the older single woman. There should be more of a variety because there are so many different paths that humans take, and they should be given a platform to be seen.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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I have a Lamborghini Diablo. I have Mercedes 600, a 500, a 300, a 190. I have a Ferrari Testarossa, a Porsche speedster.
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The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
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I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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New York City is my favorite city in the world.
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Today-for tomorrow, today becomes yesterday: How many million promises can ever fill a basket...
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I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.
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One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.
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In opposition to the plenary ability taught by the Pelagians, the gracious ability of the Arminians, and the natural ability of the New School theologians, the Scriptures declare the total inability of the sinner to turn himself to God or to do that which is truly good in God's sight
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How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
