Wellington Mara Quotes
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
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Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.
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Every time I could possibly be doing stand up, I am.
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I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one.
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I want to see what I look like when I'm old - I'm curious where that's going to take me.
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The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
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I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
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It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
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The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
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I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.
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The thing is that war is the opposite of negotiation. It's when you cannot negotiate, when you cannot talk, when you cannot reach agreements that then you have war.
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I'm in a constant state of gratitude.
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
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I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.
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I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees.
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I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don't think I'm entitled to it. That's a big difference.
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As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.
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The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
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I think when the bottom started to drop out, we didn't recognize it.
