David Amram Quotes
I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.
Quotes to Explore
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People are mean on social media, whoever you are. It's a shame people have to be that way.
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It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
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Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great sport that can have a larger audience and appeal to more people. Sportsmanship is lacking in many other sports that I don't want to name.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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A fashion show is like a 10-minute play, but there's all this anticipation; Everyone arriving, finding their seats, then there's 10 minutes of people walking past and clothes and music, then the whole thing is finished.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They were a little relief from the grimmer, grayer parts of the newspaper, and one of the best people at doing this was Will Rogers.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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Civil lawsuits do two important things: they compensate people who are injured by the bad acts of others, and they penalize people and companies for bad behavior.
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People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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They're not poodles, they're art.
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I love people who dress how they feel and change it depending on the day.
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Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.
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I love seeing when actors go from one genre to the next because I feel like most of them can pull it off.
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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
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It's human nature to want to be with other people.
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Music really gets me going, so I've always got to make sure I have my iPod to give me energy to work out.
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The miracle of Bach has not appeared in any other art. To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervour, to give wings of eternity to that which is most ephemeral; to make divine things human and human things divine; such is Bach, the greatest and purest moment in music of all time.
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We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.
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It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.
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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
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The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.
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I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.
