Irvin Mayfield Quotes
I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
Quotes to Explore
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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I still love recording and still love the stage, but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
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I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
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History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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'Horse thunder' is what I call the sound of galloping hooves.
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The Qur'an, the universe, and humanity are three kinds of manifestations of one truth.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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You were sick, but now you're well, and there's work to do.
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We've all grown up not the same, but with very similar morals and values. We know how it is. We know not to talk about anyone's mother and sister.
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I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
