Elmer Bernstein Quotes
I thought in terms of the enthusiasm of doing it. I didn't think about whether I was ready.
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I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love 'Childrens Hospital.' That really pushes the envelope of comedy.
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Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
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Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.
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No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar novels ever worried about the effects of prolonged exposure to the threat of nuclear war.
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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge.
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Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
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I'm influenced by all types of music.
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I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
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We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve.
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Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
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China is a government-oriented economy. No one can say he can run his business entirely without government connections. Anybody who says that he or she can do things alone... is a hypocrite.
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I am what we call a 'karma yogi' in Sanskrit. A karma yogi is somebody who believes in data. I collect a lot of data.
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Georgia O'Keeffe proposed that I live with her. She was in New Mexico then, and I wanted to be in New York.
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I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.
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What happens so often as an actor is that you retain the information about the scenes that you yourself shot and you obsess over certain scenes that you found the most challenging or interesting. The rest of the film kind of falls away in your memory or it fades a little bit.
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Now that my wine has been served in the White House, why not me? Who could talk to farmers better than I? Somebody even asked me the other day if I had anything in my platform about taxes. 'Hell yes,' I said. 'Great state. But I wouldn't want to live there.'
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I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum.
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The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly rebelled against it. In everything - social, sexual, emotional - they were out on a limb, pushing the boundaries.
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Cowards fear to die; but courage stout,Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.
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Teachers know how to improve education.
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Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
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Heaven is in a grain of sand.
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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I thought in terms of the enthusiasm of doing it. I didn't think about whether I was ready.
