William McChesney Martin Quotes
Too many of our prejudices are like pyramids upside down. They rest on tiny, trivial incidents, but they spread upward and outward until they fill our minds.
Quotes to Explore
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We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.
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Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.
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In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.
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I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.
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What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar.
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Owning equities is an essential part of anyone's portfolio. You just can't ignore it over time. It's going to add the real pop to anyone's overall performance.
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The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling.
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I don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to wear it anymore because I'm so wrapped up in the animals. I have real deep thoughts about it because I care about the world and nature.
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Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
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And yet, something tied them together, strong than any of that, something with the power to conduct her blood and breath like a symphony, so that anything she did to fight against it felt like discord, like disharmony with her self.
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Baby it's you. You're the one I love. You're the one I need. You're the only one I see.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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Reading books everyone died, none became any wise.
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People sold everything - their cars, their land for miles, to come in and see me beat. I went to the bank laughing every time.
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Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good.
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There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life -reciprocity.
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As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
