Maira Kalman Quotes
In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.
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I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
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I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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I am not surprised that other gases may participate in cellular signaling and regulation. Our early work with nitric oxide was just the beginning. I'm sure more will be discovered.
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I work with gold that holds our past and diamonds that see the future and rubies that long for love. It's just a way of telling a story.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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I give 150%. I'm a professional, a pro.
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I have major respect for Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood and Sugarland. They are wonderful. They're superstars in the music business.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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When I grew older and awkward, when my parents divorced and life had gone all to hell, Demetrie stood me at the wardrobe mirror and told me over and over, 'You are beautiful. You are smart. You are important.' It was an incredible gift to give a child who thinks nothing of herself.
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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
