Bob Fosse Quotes
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
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There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual,' but that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. I don't really talk about it that often, because there's too much talk in the world. Especially with Christians, there's more proselytizing than there is actual living proof of it. That's kind of sad.
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I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.
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The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
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Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.
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Dads are the appendix of humanity. They should just be taken out before they start causing problems.
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I've wanted recognition; I wanted success; I wanted appreciation; I love the perks of being in the movies. I love the fame that comes with it - but that's why I became an actor.
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Shakespeare pulls on us and demands the best of us. You never successfully wrestle one of his plays to the ground and say, 'See? That's It!'
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My life is an open pamphlet.
