Henry Flynt Quotes
Basically, at this time, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.
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Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response.
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Love is a state of being.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.
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There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
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Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.
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I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.
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We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her.
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Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.
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Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.
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There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more difficult pleasures." The presumption of that formulation is that the more difficult pleasures are actually better than the easier pleasures. That is why one makes the exchange.
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Basically, at this time, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.
