Marian McPartland Quotes
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On Earth, men are seen as superior because of their physical strength, but it means nothing in space, where there is no gravity.
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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We're a very iterative company, so we jump on basically all new technology.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
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Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.
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I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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Hard power makes sense under some circumstances. But there's not a universal solution to global problems.
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Nobody is going to hand you a music career.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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My ideas are always better. We have an understanding in place.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.
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The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.
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There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it's like to be a woman in her 60s. There aren't any films about it and there very few TV series about it.
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In Hollywood, a lot of times when something is in development, it just takes a lot of time.
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Egypt is practicing its very normal role on its soil and does not threaten anyone and there should not be any kind of international or regional concerns at all from the presence of Egyptian security forces.
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Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be enough, along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it, don't become a writer.
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When the economic well-being of their nation demanded a strong and creative response, my colleagues at the Federal Reserve... mustered the moral courage to do what was necessary.
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These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them. They lay on the far side of a great divide in time, as significant as B.C. and A.D. Before prison, before the war, before the sight of a corpse became a banality.
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I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works.
