Jeff Bewkes Quotes
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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As hitters, I think we take for granted at times how good our hands are and just how much the value of truly getting the barrel to the ball is. We don't have to do as much as we think we have to.
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Always the notorious red-light district of sports, boxing today is as troubled as it was even in the days when the Mob called the shots. There are too many lawsuits and too few heroes. Absurd mismatches and fraudulent rankings by unaccountable offshore sanctioning bodies have disgusted fans.
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Writers aren't in competition with one another. It isn't a zero sum game. If you have a good book, a good cover, a good product description, and a low price, you can sell well.
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I tend to listen to country music more than Cuban music.
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In Benin, there's a thing that family members wear the same pattern of traditional African clothing.
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It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
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Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.
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I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.
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The pressure of 'what are you going to do?' makes everyone feel like they haven't done anything yet.
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I know musicians who think that drumming and guitaring can be very meditative, but singing is different because when you think about things, you put words to them. So I try to just stay present most of the time, I try not to let my mind wander and I also try not to clear my mind. I like to still have thought and be aware of people and whatever that's happening, but I also like to just focus on the words that I'm saying.
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For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.
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I can certainly see a band like Nirvana, like when they started having to play to the kind of guys that beat them up in high school - that was probably shocking. But you make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier.
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AOL invented social networking.
