All Quotes

Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view.
‐‐ Norman Lamm

Main characters should grow and change during the course of a story.
‐‐ Leigh Michaels

Main Street investors, who cannot trade credit default swaps, should not be tempted to trade an instrument with the same risk profile simply because it has been given a different name.
‐‐ Daniel L. Doctoroff

Main Street versus Wall Street was the 2008 economic mantra of Democrat Barack Obama.
‐‐ Nina Easton

Main thing, really, is I write songs the way I wanna hear them and the way I think the people that come to our shows wanna hear them.
‐‐ Brantley Gilbert

Maine is a joy in the summer. But the soul of Maine is more apparent in the winter.
‐‐ Paul Theroux

Maine is the largest producer of wild blueberries in the world. The woody plants occur naturally in the sandy gravel understory of Maine's coastal forests, where little else bothers even trying to grow.
‐‐ Jeanne Marie Laskas

Maine is wonderful. It can be very hard. I mean, if you look at the profile maps it doesn't look it, but somehow when you get out there it's really steep and hard.
‐‐ Bill Bryson

Maine likes to call itself 'America's Vacationland.' For many artists, though, it's the office. Since the 19th century, painters from all over the country - including Edward Hopper, Alex Katz, John Marin, Fairfield Porter, Neil Welliver and Andrew Wyeth - have spent large chunks of time there.
‐‐ Terry Teachout

Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals.
‐‐ Paul Theroux

Maine people have a live-and-let-live philosophy, and tend to be fair and open-minded.
‐‐ Chellie Pingree

Maine's long and cold winters may help keep our State's population low, but our harsh climate also accounts for what is unique and valuable about our land and our people.
‐‐ Tom Allen

Maine's welfare program is cannibalizing the rest of state government. To all you able-bodied people out there: Get off the couch and get yourself a job.
‐‐ Paul LePage

Mainly as sort of blueprints for dealing with most of the adults in their lives, to some extent with their fellows. It is this notion of aiming high and there's always hope, aim low and you might as well stop now.
‐‐ Diana Wynne Jones

Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people; it doesn't sound good to me. If you're making music in order to become famous or loved by the masses... that's not what I'm about. When somebody's making music for the wrong reasons, I hear it right away.
‐‐ John Frusciante

Mainly, I have actually been getting involved with an organization called MALDEF. It's a Latino organization. And I would like to get involved with charities that have to do with children or homelessness or education, or all of them together.
‐‐ Edy Ganem

Mainly I'm a vegan because I like animals, and I don't want to be involved in their suffering. Also, it's better for my health and for the environment.
‐‐ Moby

Mainly, I'm doing my thing, and I hope people like it. I don't say, 'I'm going to write something radical and hope it reverberates throughout society.' The goal is to write a solid, entertaining, engaging show.
‐‐ Jenji Kohan

Mainly I make music, and you can do that until you drop dead.
‐‐ Grace Slick

Mainly I study the sense of touch and what the molecules are that transduce touch. And I use mutants in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to look at that problem.
‐‐ Martin Chalfie

Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.
‐‐ Don Knotts

Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off.
‐‐ Ewan McGregor

Mainly it's the parents who remember me. But the kids today, what they do is go and Google you. A lot of them turn up and they know everything about me. They say: 'You scored 346 goals' or 'You wore the No9 shirt for Liverpool.'
‐‐ Ian Rush

Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. You can sell a lot of junk to a lot of people by inventing a stage of life and giving it a name.
‐‐ Jill Lepore

Mainly, what I like to do is keep things varied and not get in a rut, not tell the same stories over and over.
‐‐ Kurt Busiek

Mainly, when I go see a show, unfortunately it's more industrial espionage than it is going to actually enjoy a show.
‐‐ Hal Sparks

Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community.
‐‐ Malcolm Gladwell

Mainstream animated movies are dumbed-down and sanitised: they make the world in their own image rather than exploring the limitless possibilities that are out there.
‐‐ Nick Park

Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is.
‐‐ Michael Haneke

Mainstream Jewish intellectuals became 'pro'-Israel after the June 1967 war when Israel became the U.S.A.' s strategic asset in the Middle East, i.e., when it was safe and reaped benefits. To credit them with ideological conviction is, in my opinion, very naive.
‐‐ Norman Finkelstein

Mainstream media has convinced people that black people aren't relatable. So when a Jewish person comes up to me and is all, 'Oh man, I love that one scene from Episode 3, I watch it over and over again,' I'm so happy. Because that's what I want.
‐‐ Issa Rae

Mainstream media's representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black men's lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
‐‐ Aberjhani

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
‐‐ Arianna Huffington

Mainstream media tends to showcase a very specific kind of Mardi Gras, but my experience of Mardi Gras is very different; it's very cultural.
‐‐ Solange Knowles

Mainstream to me equals boring, so I don't want to be doing that.
‐‐ Marnie Stern

Maintain 'baseball cards' and/or 'believability matrixes' for your people. Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.
‐‐ Ray Dalio

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.
‐‐ Mario Vargas Llosa

Maintain yourself and everything maintains itself around you.
‐‐ Paul Kantner

Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.
‐‐ Bill Gates

Maintaining a positive working relationship with Mexico's leadership will also be crucial to increasing communication and trade. I plan to personally maintain those relationships.
‐‐ Doug Ducey

Maintaining boundaries is hard. That's why I strongly prefer the physical separation of work and home.
‐‐ Karen Finerman

Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is vital to keep the form of government set up by our Founding Fathers.
‐‐ Todd Tiahrt

Maintaining clean, safe water remains one of our greatest national and global challenges and responsibilities.
‐‐ Jerry Costello

Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.
‐‐ Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently it's the most difficult thing in the world.
‐‐ Kelly Slater

Maintaining my dignity is so important for me.
‐‐ Amanda Lindhout

Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy and it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the restrictions to which searches by public authorities are ordinarily subject.
‐‐ Byron White

Maintaining our standard; that's our challenge day-in and day-out.
‐‐ Tim Rice

Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. It's a balance.
‐‐ Bikram Choudhury