Scott Joplin Quotes
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.
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Was Sen. Barack Obama a Muslim? Did he ever practice Islam? The presidential candidate officially rejects the claims, but the issue of Obama's personal faith has re-emerged amid conflicting accounts of his enrollment as a Muslim during elementary school in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
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Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.
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I exist as I am, that is enough.
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For me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.
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The Arab spring confirmed that peaceful change is possible and so reinforced the vision of political Islam. The impact of this went beyond the Brotherhood to include the Salafist tendency in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya that had questioned the democratic path.
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We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.
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'It is better to live poorly upon the fruits of God’s goodness than live plentifully upon the products of our own sin.'
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A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.
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My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life. One sign that you're awakened is that you don't give a damn about what's going to happen in the next life. You're not bothered about it; you don't care. You are not interested, period.
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No one is exempt from talking nonsense. The great misfortune is to do it solemnly.
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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
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If you transmit the rays of the sun through a hole in the shape of a star you will see a beautiful effect of perspective in the spot where the sun's rays fall.
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As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love.
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I'd rather be biblically correct than politically correct.
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People don't want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.
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The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them.
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'This Means War' is up there with 'Hail to the King' in terms of crowd reaction and kids chanting for it.
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One day the 'Maple Leaf' will make me King of Ragtime Composers.
