Ismail Merchant Quotes

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

Ismail Merchant

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• PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.

  

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• If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.

  

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• Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!

  

  Victoria Justice
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• There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.

  

  Samuel Adams
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• I love Indian food, and my favourite dish is dal rice.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
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• I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.

  

  Gary Ross
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• As Americans, we have the right to decide who lives within our borders, and we can't let unscrupulous employers to undercut honest business owners by exploiting cheap labor.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • Business
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• The best thing about living... Is the chance to keep on doing it!

  

  Lena Horne
  • Chance
  • Living
  • Thing

• The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Failure
  • Understand

• I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Good
  • Great
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• (Djinn are essentially vapor.) "I blew him away.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Away
  • Vapor
  • Djinn

• All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it... it doesn't matter where your hands are.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Desire
  • Hands
  • Burning

• I want to advise this people, if the Lord ever does give you an inspiration, for heaven's sake write it down and remember it.

  

  J. Golden Kimball
  • Remember
  • Heaven
  • Inspiration

• I think there are always going to be fanatics and charismatic extremists who are going to be able to draw a following.

  

  Queen Noor of Jordan

• There may be challenges or crosses that may have delayed your goals temporarily, but now it’s time to move forward.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Time
  • May
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• We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Work
  • Problems
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• It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Women
  • Suffering
  • Blood

• You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller

• To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • War
  • Winning
  • Talent

• Sometimes sadness is appropriate. Not something to run from, not something to numb...just something to feel.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Feel
  • Sadness
  • Appropriate

• From Roman times to the present, Italy has been a country to fall in love with - a tribute to all that is enduring, crazy, pagan, joyous, melancholy, at once banal and divine, in the human spirit.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Country
  • Fall
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• He thought that everyone should listen to her voice, because there was so much sadness and happiness in it, all at the same time. And he knew she could make the world be quiet, and he thought that maybe the world needed to be quiet. That was the problem with the world—it never stayed quiet long enough to listen.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Problem
  • Happiness
  • Listen

• In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.

  

  Huston Smith
  • Nature
  • Emphasis

• Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

  

  Ismail Merchant
  • Sadness
  • Melancholy
  • Emphasis