Chita Rivera Quotes
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Missing from much of the public debate is discussion of the simple fact that lurking behind every terroristic act is a specific political antecedent. That does not justify either the perpetrator or his political cause. Nonetheless, the fact is that almost all terrorist activity originates from some political conflict and is sustained by it as well.
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Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
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The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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What was bizarre, when I was younger, I never watched TV. I would rather watch a movie 100 times than to watch a TV show, just to find another nuance. I can't tell you how many times I've watched 'On the Waterfront', just to find a flaw so that I can learn and try to improve my thing.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
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When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.
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We just recently saw Bruno Mars at the Hollywood Bowl, and he was incredible.
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The human race is governed by its imagination.
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I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.
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Money talks. I want the biggest fight. Whoever I've got to fight - the biggest show, biggest payday - that's what I want.
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You can read and read, but nothing eclipses experience.
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I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.
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I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.
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There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can't do it in five minutes. You can't listen to 'The Rite of Spring' once and understand what Stravinsky was all about.
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Individual consciousness is just sickness.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em.
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I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European.
