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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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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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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I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your head is left free.
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I do like Eddie Van Halen as a player. He gets it right quite often.
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Any programming language is at its best before it is implemented and used. Anything is possible, anything can happen. On a flimsy ground of reality, imagination spins marvelous patterns.
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Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.
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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.
