David Amram Quotes
Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.
Quotes to Explore
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
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I was definitely a Daddy's boy.
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I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.
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I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.
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A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I don't know how comfortable I am, or the world is, with me being that.
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Sci-fi always runs out a little bit ahead of reality, right? Automatic doors in 'Star Trek,' stuff like that. It all happened, didn't it, finally?
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I'm having a really hard time with this retirement thing and not having wrestling.
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I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.
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There are times I turn off my Wi-Fi, and I'm selective about what I want to share with the world now.
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I grew up on a farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, a rural community south of Norman. My family moved to Enid, Oklahoma, in 1962, when I was a junior in high school. This cast me into a totally different environment. Enid was a company town for Champlin Petroleum, and there was an oil boom going on.
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We must get government out of the way and help foster an environment where small businesses are free to grow and create jobs.
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There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
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Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.
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The comparison here implied between the actions of one of the higher animals and of one so low in the scale as an earth-worm, may appear far-fetched; for we thus attribute to the worm attention and some mental power, nevertheless I can see no reason to doubt the justice of the comparison.
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Socialism has to remain a terrifying and a majestic thing. If we follow this line, we shall be able to face our enemies.
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I'm no longer an artist, I'm a business partner.
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To feel the presence of the Lord is an amazing thing.
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Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control.
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How much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of Creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatological mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements?
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You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.
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Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.
