Howard E. Koch Quotes
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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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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 next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.
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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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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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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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I learned a lot just watching people perform.
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I want to use whatever connections to get a super-outstanding Basquiat in the White House. It could be one of mine. It could be something that a friend owns.
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You have to believe. You have to stick to your guns.
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What makes a really great fighter is a combination of ingredients: one is everything physical that you can do, and the other is what's mentally there for you. And I think that comes down to how big your heart is and what's driving you.
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Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
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People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.
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I'm not God, don't intend to be and hope I never have that much power.
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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.
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The weaker the country, the stronger the smile.
