Sarah Caldwell Quotes
Once in a while, when everything is just right, there is a moment of magic. People can live on moments of magic.
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.
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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
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I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet.
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People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
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What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?
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Essentially, if you decide to sell a widget using BitPay, and you sell the widget for $100, in Bitcoin you get $100. And so it doesn't matter what the price does the next minute or the next hour.
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Every morning, I can lose myself just by looking at my son.
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What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.
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It's such an insult that foul gas comes out of a hole in our butt with a sound to announce itself. It's the ultimate bad thing about being a person.
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Urban renewal always happens as a symphony of events, and part of the symphony is innovative, optimistic developers with the ability and willingness to transform historic properties.
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Many of the young people living in inner-city America don't see themselves - I mean, they even talk about things like death and dying. And there's a tremendous loss of hope. And of all the things to lose, I think nothing is worse or more difficult to overcome than the loss of hope.
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I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a collection.
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I can write anywhere that's quiet. I have a study in my apartment, but I often work in the kitchen of a house that we rent in the country.
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It is part of God's plan for us that Christ shall come to us in everyone; it is in their particular role that we must learn to know him. He may come as a little child, making enormous demands, giving enormous consolation. He may come as a stranger, so that we must give the hospitality to a stranger that we should like to give to Christ.
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Once in a while, when everything is just right, there is a moment of magic. People can live on moments of magic.
