Susanne Langer Quotes
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I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
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We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
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My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
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But you know, it's not easy when your husband runs for president. I mean, it's not easy for me. I'm sure it's not easy for her. There's a lot of scrutiny on families that isn't always wanted.
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Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.
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It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.
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Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
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I love music; I love performance. I love everything revolving around art. But I also am really passionate about politics and human rights and science and the environment. Those are things that fascinate me.
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When you hear bad things about yourself, just put your energies into something else; it's no good crying about it. Just put it into your music - it'll make you stronger.
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For every film that I have believed in - from 'Tanu Weds Manu' to 'Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein' - it was very difficult to find producers.
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In order for us to appreciate this world, we have to be a bit more honest, and I hope I do that.
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Music is our myth of the inner life.
