Margaret Mead Quotes
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each other, and I want to remain that way. I'll talk music, production, writing songs, touring with anyone but keep religion, politics and world affairs off the table, as my expertise is in songs and music.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.
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My childhood was appalling.
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I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.
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I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her.
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I grew up in the '50s, in New York City, where television was born. There were 90 live shows every week, and they used a lot of kids. There were schools just for these kids. There was a whole world that doesn't exist anymore.
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We're not the States of America; we're the United States of America. If states don't get what they need, we're not going to have a successful plan, period.
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On my gravestone, I want 'Here lies the singer,' not 'Here lies the T.V. presenter'.
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The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.
