Aby Rosen Quotes
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Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.
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I think beauty can be everywhere.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.
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what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.
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My poor cooking is legendary among my friends.
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This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole.
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
