Marian McPartland Quotes
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Suggest your children try tithing - giving 10 percent of their allowance to a charity every month.
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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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I've always been fascinated by the brain. I wrote a lot about brain-tech in my first non-fiction book, 'More Than Human.' So when I decided to write science fiction, that was the technology I gravitated towards.
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I work as if I were going to be the next person to need a respirator. I share in the benefits I bestow on others, and my work has enriched my life.
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Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
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We all get paid very, very well, and we have responsibilities.
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Nobody does remakes for the sake of it. As for me, I have not hard and fast rules with respect to remakes.
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Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.
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Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with gold while the people are starving. But what elitists don't get is that for poor people, the church is their own mansion. Nightclubs fill the same function.
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I've met some incredible people who I really admire.
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Social media is reducing social barriers. It connects people on the strength of human values, not identities.
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When you've been driving in the top category for 10 years, you're obviously not a kid any more. You know, I'm married now and I've got two kids. That let's you know you're getting older.
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I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.
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We've seen many heroes from Jamaica, you know, and to be put in that class or to be looked upon on that level is overwhelming. It's pretty big shoes to fill, you know. I'm a size eight, but I'll try my best.
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I want to go back to the Pantanal in Brazil. I've never been to sub-Saharan Africa. I'd like to take my Caravan over there and do a flying safari. I've never flown to Alaska.
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Every girl wishes she was Juliet in some version of their life.
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There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.
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I've learned very, very, very clearly that money does not equal happiness or security, either.
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There's nothing more nourishing to the spirit than doing what you feel called to do.
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But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine.
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Personally, I like sex and I don't care what a man thinks of me as long as I get what I want from him -- which is usually sex.
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I like minor tunes.
