Meredith Monk Quotes

Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art at all. The two things more and more become one rather than two different aspects of my life.

Meredith Monk

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• I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.

  

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• The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

  

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• I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

  

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• War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.

  

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• I've got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I can help them think through their decisions about products, about partners, about hiring. But in the end, the decisions are theirs, and so is the responsibility.

  

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• In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.

  

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• The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.

  

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• The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide.

  

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• A novelist has more talent for written than oral assignments.

  

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• I did get in a car wreck, but we got a good song out of it.

  

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• I have a healthy addiction to binge-watching TV.

  

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• It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has fought tirelessly to protect and preserve our natural resources and environment for future generations.

  

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• My long hair and the sideburns made me stand out, really, because my hairstyle was completely different to the other footballers of that era.

  

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• Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do. Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling: from observing others one forms an idea of how new behaviors are performed, and on later occasions this coded information serves as a guide for action.

  

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• Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art at all. The two things more and more become one rather than two different aspects of my life.

  

  Meredith Monk
  • Different
  • Practice
  • Things