Jerome Kern Quotes
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.
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Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
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I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
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Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.
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Pretty is so boring now. There are so many different definitions of 'pretty.' It's so much broader than before. The old pretty is boring - nobody cares anymore.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
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As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.
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I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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Say what you want about Maroon 5 not making music like the kind found on 'Songs About Jane,' the fact remains that they know how to write a really good pop song that highlights lead singer Adam Levine's falsetto.
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Just being at home, growing up naturally, and being here now with my video and my music, I think people realize that I was in the Spice Girls 8 years ago.
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I basically raised myself.
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I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condition.
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Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.
