Joel Grey Quotes
I've always wanted to do, oddly enough, a live variety show, but only with a live audience.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
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I love everything to be organized and clean... all the time.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.
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I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.
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When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.
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Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.
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To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.
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Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.
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Game theory is a theory of strategic interaction. That is to say, it is a theory of rational behavior in social situations in which each player has to choose his moves on the basis of what he thinks the other players’ countermoves are likely to be.
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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
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I've always wanted to do, oddly enough, a live variety show, but only with a live audience.
