John Cage Quotes
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The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.
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I'm always worried about everything. Like spiders.
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We seem, as a culture, to start to adhere to these antiheroes and have grown tired of the traditional, straight-up-and-down good guy.
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People have lost their faith that if they work hard, if they try to get ahead, if they play by the rules, then that will ultimately result in positive outcomes.
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I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.
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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of.
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The moment an athlete doesn't train, things start to get a bit rusty.
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Well, I don't give it out very often, but I reject the notion that you have to be a practitioner to give good advice.
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I don't know if I'm a method actor.
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I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
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My mom had done some TV and commercials before I was born, and so when I was born, she knew I had a really big interest in acting because I was always acting in plays with my dolls, and they were sort of boring, because I've seen them on tape; they always involved a lot of singing and dragging them around by their hair.
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I'm proud of Larry Sanders and proud of every single person who went on that journey. It's a very special show to me, and I've learned a lot of lessons from it. I need to find something where I can learn some more lessons, and then I'll do that project.
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I'm really a pacifist.
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The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate.
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All of my judges will want to welcome every child into the world, give them a place at the table.
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Science kills credulity and superstition, but to the well-balanced mind it enhances the feeling of wonder, of veneration, and of kinship which we feel in the presence of the miraculous universe.
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They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking the streets of earth until dawn. There's got to be someone for me. It's not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.
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Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.
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I think some parents think, 'Oh, having kids is so beautiful; I want others to feel the joy I do.'
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I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, 'If you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again.' So I'd lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There's a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested.
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It's been unsettling to discover that every form of narrative, even one that purports to tell the truth, is a kind of lying.
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Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.
