Ingrid Michaelson (Ingrid Ellen Michaelson) Quotes
For as long as we can trace back human life, there's always been some sort of music - ceremonies, rituals. It's part of the human makeup.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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Survival is not about being fearless. It's about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.
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I like 'Ab Fab;' I love the crazy stuff they wear. That's my favourite! I love 'Ab Fab.'
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I didn't know what to expect, having not been an artist before. From the outside, you only see romantic snapshots of what seems like a great lifestyle, and it is, but it's also grueling.
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
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Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
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When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.
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Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.
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I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.
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New York is such a diverse place in and of itself, it would be ridiculous to see it otherwise.
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The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.
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I think people try so hard to learn everything that they miss all the wonderful essentials. There is so much mystery in life that you should leave a mystery.
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
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Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value.
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Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.
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Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.
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We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.
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The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.
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For as long as we can trace back human life, there's always been some sort of music - ceremonies, rituals. It's part of the human makeup.
