Anne Sullivan Macy Quotes
Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.
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I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
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But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.
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I want people to tell me the truth.
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Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
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I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.
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It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.
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I'd have sex with a number of the Muppets. I just don't talk about it publicly. It's private. Although a hint is, that there was a character in Elmo in Grouchland who was called 'My Lady' and that's all I'll say.
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'I see . . .' said the vampire thoughtfully, and slowly he walked across the room towards the window. first line
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Twice, adv. Once too often.
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I'm curious about everything - even things that don't interest me.
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To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.
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Some solutions are relatively simple and would provide economic benefits: implementing measures to conserve energy, putting a price on carbon through taxes and cap-and-trade and shifting from fossil fuels to clean and renewable energy sources.
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I had prepared myself for the second half of my life to be filled with other passions that don't include being in front of the camera. And then all of a sudden I got more work and more work and more work. And I went, "Well maybe things have shifted." And I think they have.
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There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
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My mother has always been an Anglophile and taught my sister and me to love British history and literature.
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Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
