Jonathan Tisch Quotes
You can't get a degree at Tisch College. It serves as an amplifier for what your focus is. If you're an engineer, you can take courses on understanding how to move a river in Africa to bring hydroelectric power to a community.
Quotes to Explore
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.
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I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
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I love baseball, and the door remains open.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.
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Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.
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Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.
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Zerts' are what I call desserts. 'Trée-trées' are entrées. I call sandwiches 'sammies,' 'sandoozles,' or 'Adam Sandlers.' Air conditioners are 'cool blasterz' with a 'z' - I don't know where that came from. I call cakes 'big ol' cookies.' I call noodles 'long-ass rice.' Fried chicken is 'fry-fry chicky-chick.' Chicken parm is 'chicky-chicky-parm-parm.' Chicken cacciatore? 'Chicky-cacc.' I call eggs 'pre-birds,' or 'future birds.' Root beer is 'super water.' Tortillas are 'bean blankets.' And I call forks 'food rakes.'
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I've always been a ravenous consumer of opinion. When I was in my high school library and my college library, I would read 'National Review' and I would read 'The Nation' and I would read 'The American Spectator' and I would read 'Mother Jones.'
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You can't get a degree at Tisch College. It serves as an amplifier for what your focus is. If you're an engineer, you can take courses on understanding how to move a river in Africa to bring hydroelectric power to a community.
