Aaron Copland Quotes
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To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.
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With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.
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I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.
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When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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I'm 68 years old, and I'm as much a criminal now as I was at the age of 22. And, I'm even more of a dissident than I was then.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even a simple thought. This thought or incident grows, and the story slowly unfolds itself. You have time to find your premise in the mass of your material later. The important thing is to find it.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.
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When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
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The spirit, if it could be seen with mortal eyes, would appear in bodily shape like a full-grown person with individual endowments that make it a counter-part of the body in which it [resides,] "that which is temporal in the likeness of that which is spiritual." (D&C 77:2.) It was that which came from God and entered at birth into the infant body prepared by its mortal parents. The spirit was of the "Lord from heaven." The physical body was "of the earth, earthy," (2 Cor. 15:47) or in other words, composed of the elements of which the things in the physical world are composed.
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If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself - or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
