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Maira Kalman Quotes

I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: 1949

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My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner and play Portuguese folk songs on it. I couldn't wait for him to finish so I could get my hands on it. I was seven or eight years old. And he used to have a Fender amp in his house and an electric guitar. I would spend hours making sounds.

Family Wait Dinner Guitar Hands Out

I always get carried away when I'm kissing. I just go nuts! Walking away after it is the strangest moment for me. It's embarrassing - not knowing what to say to each other.

Robert Pattinson

Moment Me Walking Not Knowing Go

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Wisdom Justice Born Goodness Reason

History shows that Americans believe in doing the right thing.

History Believe Doing The Right Thing

I've played with jazz and toyed with it when I used to live near the St. Nicholas Pub in Harlem.

Live Jazz Used Pub Harlem Played

The brain-mind is not a computer, and regarding it as one has led to a variety of theoretical dead ends.

Dead Variety Computer Led Ends

The welfare state is collapsing all around us. There are people that realize that we can't go on this way, but I'm not sure how many people realize how close we are to the collapse of the U.S. financial system.

People Financial Go Way Realize Us

We will never forget those like my great-grandfather who fought at Vicksburg.

Never Forget Forget Will Never Like

Fantasy is the tendency of Americans, going back to colonial times, to look at the Middle East as a type of fractured mirror of the United States - a type of mirror that could look a lot more like the United States, if, say, a Middle Eastern George Washington would emerge.

Mirror Look Back Say Washington

As for you, my beloved friend, I loyally believe in your uniqueness; but whenever I try to tell to you wherein it consists, I helplessly describe only a type.

Friend Believe You Uniqueness Try

We all wonder about death, where people go and what happens. But certainly, they cross over from this dimension to another one.

Dolores O'Riordan

Death People Wonder Go Over Where

I don't care what you're playing. You can be playing EDM music. Well, guess what? That came out in the early '80s. There's no way to be original. All you can do is put yourself into it and do the best you can.

Brittany Howard

Music Best Yourself Care You Early

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