Sarah Caldwell Quotes
If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.
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I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.
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I like to give people more than their money's worth.
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The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds.
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If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble appetites.
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Originality is dangerous.
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We tend to be more environmental at home than at work, regardless of the industry we're in.
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A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.
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"I think you have to be ready to quit within yourself. If you're not, it doesn't matter what rehab you go to."
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When you have a specific vision for something, you just go in and attack it.
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The more real things get, the more like myths they become. There have always been myths, but the myths of earlier times were, Im convinced, bad ones, because they made people sick. So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
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I think that in his 39 short years of life, Malcolm X came to symbolize Black urban America, its culture, its politics, its militancy, its outrage against structural racism and at the end of his life, a broad internationalist vision of emancipatory power far better than any other single individual that he shared with DuBois and Paul Robeson, a pan-Africanist internationalist perspective.
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We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.
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In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
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The hand of the wicked can't stir one moment before God allows them to begin, and...one moment after God commands them to stop.
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The only problem with the "children of Reagan" line is it reminds you that Marco Rubio is the young candidate.
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The one day you don't go into practice and use that day to the fullest is the one day someone is going to beat you.
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The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons... The lethal possibilities of atomic warfare in the future are frightening. My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.
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The way corals change the world—with huge construction projects spanning multiple generations—might be likened to the way that humans do, with this crucial difference. Instead of displacing other creatures, corals support them.
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If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.
