David Tudor Quotes
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I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately.
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The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That band was so gnarly. We were such scumbags. Alanis had no idea. We were like Van Halen.
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I've always been happy with my body.
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I've never been on a television show as a regular before.
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We don't hate the media, it's just that when there's too much of it we get bored, but it happens to every human being. I don't think we even hated the media by the time that movie was made. We were just tired.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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I don't get tired of my work because you can't get tired of something you love and enjoy! But, having said that, I wish to get a break of four to five days, or at least three days, switch off my cell phone, and do what I want to.
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I never want my kids to feel like I'm just some housewife who was just kicking it with my husband, because that's not the kind of woman that I am.
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I don't intend to die.
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I think what's most important is family.
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I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.
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It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not need of gold to form his Church. The Church possesses gold, not to hoard, but to scatter abroad and come to the aid of the unfortunate.
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I feel even old people can do a nice love story, but here we don't make that kind of films. In the West, such films are being made and they make a nice romance, which is more like compassion.
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Liberty is the possibility of isolation.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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The delusion of having wisdom creates the dangerous delusion of having power, leading to disaster.
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I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.
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The fact is that young people are going to have sex whether you like it or not.
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I’ve got the machines. I’ve got the people. I’ve got all the materials I need. I know there’s a market out there, because the competitors’ stuff is selling. So what the hell is it?
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If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.
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The mystics always say that the experience they're talking about is ineffable, that you can't say it. Rumi was asked one time why he talked so much about silence. He said, "The radiant one inside me has never said a word."
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and... disposable.