Danny Elfman Quotes
I can't get that live and I don't have the time to take the tape, after I've finished recording it, into a little studio somewhere else where I can get a different kind of percussion sound.
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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There is absolutely no reason in the world of blockchain to build in net settlement. It's like saying you have got a new Ferrari and we are going to put a lawnmower engine in it.
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My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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Women are sacred.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.
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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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You know why I'm running for governor? Because everything we care about is under siege from President Donald Trump and Bruce Rauner.
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You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.
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Let it be a settled principle ...that men's salvation, if saved, is wholly of God; and that man's ruin, if lost, is wholly of himself.
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In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.
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I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are.
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Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you're connected to Spirit, or 'inspired,' if you will. When you're inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.
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I can't get that live and I don't have the time to take the tape, after I've finished recording it, into a little studio somewhere else where I can get a different kind of percussion sound.
