Jerry Herman Quotes
I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.
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I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.
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Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right.
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In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.
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PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.
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I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not.
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The Jews are trying to destroy all other cultures...as a survival mechanism...the only Nazi country in the world is Israel.
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I respect my fans.
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I do a lot of screen re-writing.
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I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.
