Chris Crutcher Quotes
I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know anything about.
Quotes to Explore
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Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.
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We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.
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Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.
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And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.
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My chutzpah was me singing to Mario Lanza. So Mario looked at me after I talk-sang 'Be My Love' for the first time; he took the lyric out of my hand as contemptuously as you can take a lyric out of someone's hand, and he sang 'Be My Love' back at me.
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The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.
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I toured with Lady Gaga, and her choreographer is incredibly talented and develops some crazy routines. Lady Gaga is very involved in the dancing, too, and she always wants to have creative input. I had an incredible time with her!
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I would definitely love to be a parent.
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Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.
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There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.
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I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do that, but I think there's room for the tone singers. And there aren't a lot of them.
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I think I'm actually more vulnerable than people imagine.
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When you're young, you don't have much sense. You don't have any reasoning power. You don't have any ability to take a blow, an insult, a hurt in the right way. There is no way a child can do that. All a child can do is feel the pang of it, the heartache of it.
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There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.
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Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.
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Fair stands the ancient Rectory, The Rectory of Croft, The sun shines bright upon it, The breezes whisper soft. From all the house and garden Its inhabitants come forth, And muster in the road without, And pace in twos and threes about, The children of the North.
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I would love to do a duet with Tim McGraw. I think that would be fun.
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The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult, ethical controversies of the day. First things first. And planting the ideas of virtue, of good traits in the young, comes first. In the moral life, as in life itself, we take one step at a time. Every field has its complexities and controversies. And so does ethics. And every field has its basics. So too with values.
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And never - not in a single case - was the explanation, 'I was pressured to do this.' The explanation was very often, 'The limited data we had led one to reasonably conclude this. I now see that there's another explanation for it.'
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The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated.
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There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.
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I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know anything about.
