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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The sphinx will always have to be looked after.
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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
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You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then.
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As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing.
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'Oh, Calcutta,' was one of the healthiest shows I've ever been in.
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You have to prepare yourself physically as much as possible for a bad wipeout.
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