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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Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.
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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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Work done illegally outdoors or without permission feels like pure freedom to me. I understand how it can upset many in our society, but in the bigger picture, it is ultimately about freedom. We are living in a time where public space has become a commodity for corporations to control and dictate what is seen and heard.
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My best feature would have to be my hair. That sounds so cliche - but my hair is like a separate entity.
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Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.
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Many people are concerned with children of India, with the children of Africa where quite a few die of hunger, and so on. Many people are also concerned about the violence in this great country of the United States. These concerns are very good. But often these same people are not concerned with the millions being killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is the greatest destroyer of peace today- abortion which brings people to such blindness.
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If you do the same thing too often, it gets to be the only thing you can do.
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I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works.
