Martin H. Fischer Quotes
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.
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When I taught, the way in which we got evaluated is what I used to call the drive-by evaluation. Somebody would come in for 20 minutes with a checklist, and that would be your evaluation. So it was clearly a snapshot.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock.
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I enjoy 'The Apprentice' and the one that's called 'Take My Life' and the other one called 'Stop Hitting Me.'
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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
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A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.
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Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.
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Basically I hate categorical labels. As a young artist I already was very clear about this - that 'objectification' is not the final aim of art. For there are greater things than the object. The greatest thing is the human mind.
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Rules emerge as a spontaneous order–they are found–not deliberately designed by one calculating mind. Initially constructivist institutions undergo evolutionary change adapting beyond the circumstances that gave them birth. What emerges is a form of 'social mind' that solves complex organization problems without conscious cognition.
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The incest taboo is another major category of primed learning.
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The poet who writes 'free' verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and darning for himself. In a few exceptional cases, this manly independence produces something original and impressive, but more often the result is squalor - dirty sheets on the unmade bed and empty bottles on the unswept floor.
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I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to be plastered all over the radio for the masses.
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The Kennedy Center Honors reflects our humanity and higher purpose. We are a great nation, in part, because we value culture.
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A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
