Joshua Prince-Ramus Quotes
When I went to college, I thought I was going to become a professional musician. I was a French horn player, so I went to Yale to study with a very unusual French horn player.
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Justice is revenge.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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I'm quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art - sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I've been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters.
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Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
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I wasn't a social butterfly at all.
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.
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I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I think that's why people are doing too many revivals, that's why there's a plethora of rock musicals. There's room for everything, but not room for too much of anything.
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My shoes aren't minimalist, but they are about a new simplicity.
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I'm under contract. Whatever the UFC asks, I have to do because they are my bosses and they treat me very well. I can't complain about that, and it's this, man: When you have a boss, you need to follow orders.
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I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.
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As a comedian, I don't know if they're laughing because it's funny or if they're laughing at me because I'm not funny. And I'm thinking, 'Who cares? They're laughing.' If you go on stage, and they're laughing at you full-on for 60 minutes? You know, whatever puts them in the seats.
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The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.
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The dose makes the poison.
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I think that for some people faith is good - they have something to draw to.
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God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease.
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My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.
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A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world.
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There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.
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When I went to college, I thought I was going to become a professional musician. I was a French horn player, so I went to Yale to study with a very unusual French horn player.
