Don Herold Quotes
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Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.
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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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All my books are optimistic!
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
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I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
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When you have love in a story, it gives you the freedom to really take the characters to very interesting places.
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I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.
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When I'm all alone it's the best way to be. When I'm by myself nobody else can say goodbye. Everything is temporary anyway. When the streets are wet - the colors slip into the sky. But I don't know why that means you and I are - that means you and... I quit, I give up. Nothin's good enough for anybody else, it seems.
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For whatever reason, the films I gravitate towards do have these strange sort of tonal balances to them... I kind of realized on '50/ 50' why I liked these blending of tones, because I think it's kind of what life is like: funny one minute, sad the next, scary the next.
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Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
