Emanuel Ax Quotes

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• William and I feel that every child deserves to be supported through difficult times in their lives.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Feel
  • Child
  • Difficult

• Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Students
  • Laws
  • Impact

• To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Age
  • Free
  • Me

• My inspiration is love and history.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Love
  • History
  • Inspiration

• February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • World
  • War
  • Japanese

• I always walk up the escalator on the Tube, and I live in a house with a lot of stairs, and that's good exercise, but you need more than that.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Live

• War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Men
  • Country
  • War

• People in Scotland want the parliament but don't give a toss about the elections.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Want
  • Elections

• I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Up
  • You
  • Like

• I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
  • Great
  • Love

• All your thoughts are in another head. Your dreams are sleepin' in a different bed. The force that moves you is a circular breath of life and death going round and round and round.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Life
  • Different
  • Death

• Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

  

  Aesop
  • Wise

• These blossoms, gathered in familiar paths, With dear companions now passed out of sight, Shall not be laid upon their graves. They live, Since love is deathless. Pleasure now nor pride Is theirs in mortal wise, but hallowing thoughts Will meet the offering, of so little worth, Wanting the benison death has made divine.

  

  Lucy Larcom
  • Live
  • Death
  • Thoughts

• Well I looked at my watch, it was 9:54 I said, 'Dance ballerina girl, go go go!' And we rolled, reelin' and a rockin' We was reelin' and a rockin' Rollin' till the break of dawn

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Girl
  • Dance

• There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

  

  Anais Nin
  • Truth
  • Small

• Growing up, my sisters were both into dancing, so I went to a lot of dance recitals, mostly because there were always pretty girls in leotards.

  

  Jason Sudeikis
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Growing

• One of my favorite games of all time was on Nintendo 64 - 'NFL Blitz.' I don't know why, I just loved that game - being able to hit people after the play and stuff was always fun.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• Being a parent is amazing.

  

  Angela Kinsey
  • Amazing

• I first considered writing 'New York' in 1991. I'd been in the city for a decade, was married to an American wife, and sending my children to New York schools. I was even on the board of a coop building. But I wasn't sure how to organize such complex material, and for many years I put the project aside.

  

  Edward Rutherfurd
  • Writing
  • Children
  • American

• You seem to have no real purpose in life and won't realize at the age of twenty-two that for a man life means work, and hard work if you mean to succeed.

  

  Lady Randolph Churchill
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• I've been joking that if Madonna taught us anything, you've got to reinvent yourself. I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances. I've tried to take a chance with every film I've done - I've never done it the easy way, and I think that's because that's what excites me, is making as big a mountain as I can in front of me, and just trying to mount it.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Trying

• You might look at my CV and see I've had 12 jobs, but I've been to over 450 auditions so I've heard 'no' a lot more than I've heard 'yes'. So if I go in looking only to meet my own standards, then that will make taking that rejection a little bit easier. And when I do get that job it will seem like icing on the cake.

  

  Wentworth Miller
  • Rejection
  • Cake
  • Auditions

• Half of life is up - the other half is dealing with it.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Life
  • Half

• All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!

  

  Emanuel Ax