John Zorn Quotes
One thing that I do ask myself when I'm in the creative process is, 'Does the world need this?'
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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics.
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I want women to know all around the world that they have the power!
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Nothing adds to a person's leisure time like doing things when they are supposed to be done.
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Happiness" alone does not guarantee mental health and well-being. A tempering dose of disappointment- an occasional taste of frustration and learning that you do recover from it- goes a long way toward producing long-term contentment. Indeed the ability to ride out the bad times without feeling doomed is essential to survival. When happiness is not taken for granted, and when one is acquainted with its opposite it is more easily savored and has more lasting effects.
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One thing that I do ask myself when I'm in the creative process is, 'Does the world need this?'
