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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But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.
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I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.
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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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The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.
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I enjoyed the drama of 'One Tree Hill,' and the opportunity to be one of the comedic aspects, initially.
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Let us be clear about our choice. When we raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans, no one dies. When we cut Social Security and Medicare, people die.
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I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships.
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To us there has come a time, in the midst of swift happenings, to pause for a moment and take stock - to recall what our place in history has been, and to rediscover what we are and what we may be. If we do not, we risk the real peril of inaction.
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I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works.
