Laura Nyro Quotes
You can see the walls roarSee your brains on the floorBecome GodBecome crippleBecome funky
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The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.
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I dropped the 'Bundy' with my country music because I wanted it to be two separate things: There's me as a songwriter and a country singer, and there's me as a Broadway performer.
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I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.
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Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life.
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The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded - in part because it impedes the government's ability to control institutions, like churches and families, which stand between the state and individuals.
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I am offered work all the time but not for TV series.
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Something that I've cared about deeply my whole career is getting to work with filmmakers and inventors of stories that are hysterical because they are just so painfully true.
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I write all of my songs from scratch, so the one thing I love about EDM is the way a song transforms into a piece of art, and how the different sounds can change the feel of the record.
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If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going.
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When you love fashion, there is no weekend. Everything just blends together.
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It is easy for a rabbi to establish prohibitions, but a rabbi's real strength is to teach Torah and rule on law with an emphasis on what is permitted.
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When our two souls stand up erect and strong,Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher,Until the lengthening wings break into fireAt either curvèd point, - what bitter wrongCan the earth do to us, that we should not longBe here contented?
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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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When I perform, I like to wear funky flats, leather boots or knee-high Converse with bright laces. Then I can dance and not worry about falling.
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It is painful beyond measure to lose a loving father and grandmother to violence.
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The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world power, although they, quote, 'won.'
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So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer.
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To be totally honest? I don't know if I'll keep doing more impressions. People told me I had a facility for it, and I was like, 'Okay, I'm the impression guy.' So you imagine the cast at 'SNL' is an A-Team, and you've got the explosives guy, and I'm the impression guy.
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A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.
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I collect items like Elvis Presley clock radios and '50s memorabilia. It inspires a lot of my imagery. I like tasteful trash.
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The goal here is to triple the lifespan of human beings. We can't have triple the natural resources, so we need to be more efficient.
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For the kind of thing that we were showing, the budget was sufficient. As we were speaking of in Haiti, we had not done that before in exactly this form and we had to have costumes for it.
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It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.
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You can see the walls roarSee your brains on the floorBecome GodBecome crippleBecome funky
