Howard E. Koch Quotes
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning... it's a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.
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The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.
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If we are really going to learn from others, we must decide to fully obey.
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I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.
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I will be the last person to condemn ALF the Animal Liberation Front.
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A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.
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Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.
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I did years of summer stock. I sort of only wanted to be an actor. And then at 19, I was funny, and I had some of these bits that I did for friends, and I immediately could get on television.
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It frustrates me if I'm not good at something, so I do it until I get good at it.
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I remember I used to sleep on my records. In a room with no furniture. I remember I used to sleep in my car.
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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
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Are you in my dream too?
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The border is, if not wide open, then certainly open enough to get what the demand requires inside of the country. Terrorist organizations could seek to leverage those same smuggling routes to move operatives with intent to cause grave harm to our citizens or even bring weapons of mass destruction into the United States.
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The weaker the country, the stronger the smile.