Miguel Zenon Quotes
As a composer, I'm basically trying to represent myself through my music in an honest way.
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Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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Sometimes my family got me in the door. Somebody would say, 'Bruce Dern's daughter - sure I'd like to meet her.' It was a point of interest. But after five minutes of talking about my father, I still had to read for the part.
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Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.
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The future of time, of how it's won or lost, endured or enjoyed, expanded or compressed, will depend on how it's valued, not how it's measured.
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
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Nobody is faster than me.
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My mom has never been a big meddler and isn't, like, extremely opinionated or at least just doesn't voice it to me. She's sort of let me come into my own by myself, and I think that's just a testament to what my parents did in terms of raising us.
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My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.
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I consider myself someone who takes a lot of beauty risks, and I've realized what I liar I am. I change my hair a lot, from blue to blonde to bald, but I'm trying to branch out a little more with makeup.
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It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.
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Sometimes parents squash students' interests because they are afraid of science or math. So they don't participate. You don't have to know the answers to engage kids; you just have to let them know it's important.
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I would always want printed books.
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When you're 25 or 30, you know, you can't wear lime-green eye shadow anymore.
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Chuckling to herself, Nancy said aloud, "Romance and detective work won't mix tonight!"
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Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaul's research is extraordinary; his writing is taut, elegant, and insightful; and he captures both the hilarity and pain that made Richard Pryor such a towering figure.
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I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.
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In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.
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As a composer, I'm basically trying to represent myself through my music in an honest way.
