Ernest Newman Quotes
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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When I told my parents that I was starting my transition, my Dad said, 'Well that makes so much more sense 'cause I never saw you any other way and now it totally works.'
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Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.
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I said what I said before Congress because I meant every word of it.
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I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that one's own wretched heart is still aglow.
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This would mean a great deal to the Latin players, ... I think we'd all like to see baseball do this.
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Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.
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Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.
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I was never asked to join the Editorial Cartoonists Of America. No fraternity would have me in college, either. I think they know something.
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Reason is the servant of instinct.
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Justice and beauty are central to God's new world and should be central to our work. Together they frame the good news of Jesus.
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Even when we do not create children's fears, when they come to us with fears ready-made and built-in, we use their fears as handles to manipulate them and get them to do what we want
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But if one Subject giveth Counsell to another, to do anything contrary to the Lawes, whether that Counsell proceed from evil intention, or from ignorance onely, it is punishable by the Common-wealth; because igorance of the Law, is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the Lawes to which he is subject.
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When everyone sees good, then bad exists.
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Sometimes you're quite fortunate, being on the stage, getting to meet people like Salvador Dali.
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To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.
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He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me."
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Art is... a reflection of a greater divine creation. There really is no separation.
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My taste for rappers is very high. I've only worked with, like, Pac and Jay-Z and Scarface.
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I have three children and three dogs. You put them in a Prius, you know? People who have a Prius obviously have no life! No wife, no kids, no pets - there's no room in there for anything!
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A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.
