Marketa Irglova Quotes

The idea of celebrity has always been very strange to me because it's taking the focus away from the music and attaching it to a person. When we put someone on a pedestal or idolize them, we're giving our own power away.

Marketa Irglova

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I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.

Jesse Jackson

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Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roughly stated, the voting population ought to represent the fighting population.

John Boyle O'Reilly

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I'm not ashamed of being successful. You know, they criticized Romney for being ashamed of it. I think we've got to inspire our kids that we shouldn't be ashamed to be successful.

John Catsimatidis

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Attending a Sarah Palin rally was simultaneously one of the strangest and most chilling events of my life.

John Oliver

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I'm a documentary filmmaker, I know what it means to craft a story, especially when you've shot a lot of material.

Max Joseph

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Really connect to food and know what you're eating.

Anna Getty

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I've been slightly obsessed with paper and notebooks. Among my most precious possessions is a small light-blue, breviary-sized volume - four-and-a-half inches wide, seven inches tall - made by a company called Denbigh.

Michael Dirda

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I lived in Cuba - I was there for one year in the 1950s. We built the famous nightclub, which is still there, Tropicana, and a restaurant, Montecatini, that I opened is still there. I was there when the U.S. ambassador said everyone must leave because Castro was arriving the next morning.

Sirio Maccioni

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I never drink wine. There's only one wine I like, but I forget what it's called. It tastes like Sprite.

Rob Gronkowski

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I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

Lois Lowry

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I feel best in a ragged pair of red Honda Motorcycle pants. I have taken them to Machu Picchu, to the Knob Creek Machine Gun festival, and backstage to Cirque du Soleil - just the right touch to make you untouchable. No one quite dares to throw you out, because perhaps you are a world class motocross racer.

Jonathan Franklin

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No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to get a government - and a nation - to stop drifting to low performance. That's to wake up and insist on higher standards.

Donella Meadows

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