John Cage Quotes
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?
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Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.
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I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.
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Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.
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Those who are able to afford to live in a neighborhood with 'good schools' will do so, knowing that a good education is the key to good opportunity for their children.
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Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
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The test of the worth of work is its effect on the worker. If it degrade him, it is bad; if it ennoble him, it is good.
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
