Margaret Mead Quotes
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.
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I have selective hearing.
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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
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Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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I kind of crave loneliness.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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If I go out there and am myself, and I do what makes me comfortable and what I think is true to my artistry, and they don't like it, then that's fine. I walk off stage, and I know there's nothing there's nothing I could have done differently.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin. The mission of our organization is to create a national network that connects every youth aging out of foster care to the critical resources, opportunities, and support they need to thrive in adulthood.
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Like Russell, I enjoy the fact that when I'm playing solo, if I want to do something completely spontaneous, I don't have to worry about how I'm going to cue the other musicians, or if it's something that's rehearsed.
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The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?
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Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.
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My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.
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I think everyone likes to play dress up from time to time.
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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
