Carolyn Mahaney Quotes
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If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.
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You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.
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In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.
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So it must be my mental, because sometimes when I start on the tee, I still worry about whether my ball is going to hit right or left.
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I think people in power have a vested interest to oppose critical thinking.
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Can't get up in the morning lately and I'm just sunk in a dream I'm always the ship in the stream
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My response was that more than half of Israelis are of Sephardic origin. Many of these Jews come from Arab lands and share the same physical skin color.
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I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.
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Gardening is not something to get on your high horse about or be overwhelmed by. Either you enjoy it or you don't.
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And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life.
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I started to perform when I was 12... I don't talk too much. I let the music do the talking.
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I think if you're talented and not desperate to do any film that comes your way, and are doing justice to all your roles, then you're fine, because you can't predict the rest. You also can't predict the audience's reaction.
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I have to say that it was working with my grandpa, who grew up on a farm in Mountain Home, Idaho, that had the most influence. Witnessing his work ethic and hearing his stories gave me an appreciation for the farm's best lessons.
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Some people think that I would be afraid of them, but I'm never, ever afraid of an animal. I just get excited, and some that are dangerous, I think, 'Ooh, what's going to happen?' and things like that.
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I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.
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Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.
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Stifling our emotions is like marking "return to sender" on God's good gift.
