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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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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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 was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
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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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You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.
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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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When I was a little baby, I remember that one moment of calm peace, and three minutes after that, it was on.
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God answered the prayers of animals.
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For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself.
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My daughter is the biggest gift; I've said it so many times and it sounds like a cliche, but the thing about being a parent is when you think you've cracked it, and you're on top of your game, they change again and you have to catch up and adjust. I feel such a responsibility to instill good values in her, to be polite, to have discipline.
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We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.
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Stifling our emotions is like marking "return to sender" on God's good gift.
