John Zorn Quotes
I have about two or three people, we don't have an office, we don't even have a dedicated phone line. We do it out of our own homes, and we make it work.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
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The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.
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I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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I don't want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.
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I think I wrote 'The Trysting Place' in about three weeks. But it was inexperience that made me have to do that. I didn't feel good about the book all the time I was writing it. It felt a bit like wading through molasses.
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Follow your musical instincts. Do what you feel is right. Don't be relegated to a certain category.
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People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.
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After a very busy three weeks spent in the City, I now have a much better understanding how all the different financial institutions work and how they fit together.
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I have about two or three people, we don't have an office, we don't even have a dedicated phone line. We do it out of our own homes, and we make it work.
