John Zorn Quotes
I don't play favorites with people. My basic philosophy is that the only way to make the world a better place is by bringing something beautiful to every single person you run into at every moment of the day, so how can you play favorites with somebody?
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
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And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.
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I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.
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I'm pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring.
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I want to do stories that really move me, that have an audience, and at the end of the day, I want people to feel something when they walk out of the cinema.
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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.
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The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.
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The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.
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I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.
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I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
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Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.
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I always try to put something personal on my albums just to give people out there a little piece of my history and how I got where I am and who I am.
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One of the biggest mistakes people make when they cook for other people is to think that it has to be fancy and elaborate. This results in enormous expense and nine days of labor, plus you end up trying to assemble a croquembouche in front of your guests and everyone's experiencing flop sweat.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
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What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.
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Kleenex would have made a mint today.
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Our children are better served by speaking not of 'visitation' versus 'custody,' but of 'parent time.'
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As a 10-year veteran of the NFL, I had a unique perspective weekly to see the heartfelt commitment of the fan. Regardless of years of disappointing and winless seasons, the true fans remained die-hard in their loyalty to 'the Team.'
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I don't play favorites with people. My basic philosophy is that the only way to make the world a better place is by bringing something beautiful to every single person you run into at every moment of the day, so how can you play favorites with somebody?
