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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People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
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To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.
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By and large, we're a bread-eating culture. People like sandwiches. We don't really over-think that one.
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People just don't know what civilian prisoners of war are.
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You could have the world in the palm of your hand, but it don't mean a thing 'til you change it.
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I suppose 'Worried About the Boy' was a brave choice, but only in the sense that if I didn't get it right, my career would be over before it had begun.
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I want to go out and do things... not just stick around having room service for two days.
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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?
