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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Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.
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For 'The Theory of Everything,' I was quite low down on a list of actors for the role, and I got the opportunity as a consequence of people saying no to it. So I have been very, very lucky.
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Philanthropy is in the DNA of my family.
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Has anyone ever said, 'I wish I could go to more meetings today'?
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Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does.
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
