Eugene Ormandy Quotes
Conductor Eugene Ormandy introduces Warfield to the audience in an unintentionally humorous way: With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with us tonight. He is a wonderful man, and so is his wife.
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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Hamas has effectively kidnapped Gaza. Instead of turning it into the Singapore of the Middle East that was promised, they have turned it into a fortress of terror.
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We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.
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Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
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I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.
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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
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If people just want to be famous, that's just not enough to get you up at 4 in the morning to go to work. You have to love what you're doing.
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John – I’m trying to find the Island in the West. Sensible – You refer, no doubt to some aesthetic experience.
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I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about..
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'Bunk' is better than 'Wheel of Fortune' because we have a wheel, just like them, but our wheel is purposeless. It doesn't do anything. It just spins for no reason. Which is nice because it frees our wheel up to really pursue its dream: becoming a professional paddlewheel.
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Our plan is to struggle against terrorism and have security for the country and help draft a democratic constitution as soon as possible.
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The first theater subscription I ever bought was the August Wilson season at Signature. I remember thinking a whole season to one playwright was a great way for a master to do a victory lap.
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I don't want music to be a museum.
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No one in my family had ever done anything acting-wise or entertainment industry-wise.
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The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.
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If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used to it. But if you're laughing one minute and, you know, somebody's doing something quite horrific the next minute, it's a little more shocking.
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I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months.'
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I'm a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don't know servings - I only know how to make a lot.
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Conductor Eugene Ormandy introduces Warfield to the audience in an unintentionally humorous way: With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with us tonight. He is a wonderful man, and so is his wife.
