M. L. Stedman Quotes
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
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Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.
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My kids miss me when I'm away, but I don't mind living out of a suitcase. The U.K., U.S., France, Germany, Iraq... it's such a thrill meeting people of different cultures, learning about and from them. It's changed my perception about life, humanity and spirituality.
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People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.
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I am just an actor, but there are these other people who are really selfless. I come from a long line of nurses in my family, and they really do a thankless job.
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But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
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Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.
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I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.
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A double bind is far worse than a straightforward damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't dilemma. It requires you to obey two mutually exclusive commands: Anything you do to fulfill one violates the other.
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Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past.
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I was interested in variations in temperatures of the oceans over the past millennium. But there are no records of these changes so I had to find proxy measures: coral growth, ice cores and tree rings.
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Ask counsel of him who rules himself well.
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I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.
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Sometimes it's good to leave the past in the past.
