Daniel Hope Quotes
When I was in my teens, Yehudi Menuhin, who was at work on his project 'The Music of Man,' introduced me to the great astronomer Carl Sagan. It was Sagan who first opened my eyes to the magnitude of the universe, and essentially to the notion of 'music of the spheres.'
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It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
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There are two of my favorite books, 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Gone With The Wind', that were made into movies. And I love those movies as much as I love the books. That's really rare.
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I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
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I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.
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I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.
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I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
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I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
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If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic substance in the universe. As a child, I would have agreed with them.
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A great deal of my mail comes from fans of the 'Oz' picture - fans of all ages. The scholarly, the curious, the disbelievers write and ask how? why? when? what for? did you fly? melt? scream? cackle? appear? disappear? produce? sky-write? deal with monkeys? etc., etc., etc.
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I don't think most of our films should be realistic, but you want that as an artistic possibility. Then, the artist can take the realism of the world and push it in ways that we can connect with.
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At Grinnell College, for the first time in my life, I was in an all-white setting. It was a shocking experience.
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I never really feel overwhelmed; I feel energized by what goes on in our day.
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The young Obama's lack of playing time on the high school basketball team was due more to his ability than the coach's preference for white players.
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When I was in my teens, Yehudi Menuhin, who was at work on his project 'The Music of Man,' introduced me to the great astronomer Carl Sagan. It was Sagan who first opened my eyes to the magnitude of the universe, and essentially to the notion of 'music of the spheres.'
