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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I'm basically quite a cheerful person.
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I often thought that if I had been working with Mark James at American Studios, I would have had a pop hit before I ever moved out of Memphis. But that didn't happen.
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The crucial role of the rich in a capitalist economy is... to invest; to provide unencumbered and unbureaucratized cash.
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Generally speaking, experience counts for something. So you'd expect entrepreneurs who've been through the ups and downs of a tech startup to have an advantage over the newcomers. Or at least have an equal chance at success. But in fact the opposite may be true. A number of venture capitalists I've spoken with have said that too many "old guard" entrepreneurs are not being bold enough in their business decisions, and it's hurting their startups.
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I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians.
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I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works.
