Fred Tomaselli Quotes
I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
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For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school in the 1960s may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
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I don't really believe in a creative-writing major as an undergraduate. It's a bad idea, terrible. I've met creative-writing majors from other places and they don't know a goddamn thing. They're the worst students. They just think they're good because they could pass.
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I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have.
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Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.
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When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to.
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I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.
