Martha Graham Quotes
I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do. One can always lament, you know - but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the great tragedian should also be a great comedian.
Quotes to Explore
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.
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I love music and I love musicians and when I hear something that's great, I always say it's like you go to a movie and you can't wait to tell your friends about it.
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I am not here to beat anyone. I am here to make a name for myself, and I am glad to work with great directors. I don't believe in the term 'next superstar.'
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There's no question that the Kings have been, are, and can be great hosts for any major events.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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I truly believe that everything Sci-fi taught me as a child about an efficient and wondrous world will be happening in my lifetime.
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If your dad always has candy, how cool is he? Coolest dude in the world. My kids think I'm cool.
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I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'
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If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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Life is never free of contradictions.
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The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And that's a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying.
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This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
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I envision Hollywood as a race, and some people simply drop off before their turn comes around. It's all about stamina - your ability to get back up and keep going even though everything is pointing at the odds not being in your favor.
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We have always moved with this approach of sharing and educating people with what they can unlock with 3D printing.
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I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.
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Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.
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I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do. One can always lament, you know - but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the great tragedian should also be a great comedian.
