Michael Cerveris Quotes
I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.
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Justice is revenge.
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You're dealing with all these foreign agents, foreign brushes, and different time zones. So, you have to put just as much work into taking that makeup off as you do into putting it on.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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After engaging in acts of war against another nation, there exists a degree of uncertainty in terms of the enemy's reactions. War inspires an unpredictable psychology and evokes strong emotions that defy systems analysis quantification.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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I think it's great fun sometimes when I am playing golf, just to give it a little uch, is to bet the other guy five bucks a hole or something like that.
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When you're in a relationship with a photographer, and they start abusing that relationship and being like, 'I want you to do this, and I want you to do that,' it makes you go, 'No.' I didn't want to work all the time.
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I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
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I get to go to all these beautiful places, so it's nice being able to take pictures of it.
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I loved 'The Wizard of Oz,' and I'm a huge Judy Garland fan, too.
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Yes, we record practically everything on Pro Tools.
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I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.
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We all see that, today, man can destroy the foundation of his existence: his Earth.
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Children need to be exploring their physical world. They need to be learning the fundamental laws of physics by manipulating objects.
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I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published.
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I think a lot of singer-songwriters get compared to each other, but I'd like to think that what I'm doing is special and specific to me.
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Marriage is traditionally old-school in many respects. It is highly antiquated, and, that being said, beautiful.
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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.
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I'm a really bad liar. My mom finds out every time, especially now that she's got Facebook.
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Politically we are very different now. But those were nice days then.
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I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.
