John Heywood Quotes
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.
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When I was in high school, I was lucky enough to be an exchange student to a small town in Argentina called Goya.
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I didn't want to do something typical.
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It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies to a certain history of the use of that term.
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I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
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I love getting after that quarterback! That's my deal: sacking the quarterback.
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I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.
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Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
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Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.
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If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.
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I believe in something.
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So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years maybe.
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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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I don't know where the limits of her range are. I certainly didn't find them.
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Certainly there's a huge appeal to the '60s, because it was such a big turning point to everyone. It was the era of change, the boiling point. People rebelled against things - the hippies, the feminists, the protesters. All these things just built up and boiled over. I think people can relate to that today.
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Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.
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It had need to beeA wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare.
