Alan Menken Quotes

When I write the music for any of my songs, I write as a composer-lyricist in my head.

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• It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Reason

• I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Me
  • Try
  • Boring

• In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Today
  • Society
  • Stop

• It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • Death
  • Christian

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Know
  • Play
  • Strange

• Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.

  

  Earl Warren
  • May
  • Silent
  • Presence

• If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• We can overcome evil with greater good.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Overcome

• I always say spend more on classics, like a good pair of leather trousers, an amazing tailored jacket, or a classic handbag. Then you can just mix your everyday tops from the high street.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Good
  • High
  • Amazing

• I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Needs
  • Values

• The stage is our pulpit, and you can use all of that energy and that music and the lights and the colors and the sound. But you know, you've got to be careful.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Music
  • Energy
  • Colors

• We deploy a full arsenal of tools against voter fraud, including long prison terms, heavy fines and deportation. We have checks and balances at all levels of the system. And we have the Department of Justice prosecutors backing us up.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Up
  • Long
  • Justice

• Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Tears
  • Blood
  • Sweat

• I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Happy
  • Guy
  • Night

• If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • People
  • Career
  • Me

• I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Work
  • History
  • Career

• As God commands us men to teach your wife, to teach your children - to be the spiritual leader of your family - you're acting as a priest. Now, unfortunately, unfortunately, in too many Christian homes, the role of the priest is assumed by the wife.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • God
  • Men
  • Children

• You can't trust just any old person who comes along with a hundred puffins and a pretty face!

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Trust
  • Person
  • Old

• ..people are working harder than ever, but because they lack clarity and vision, they aren’t getting very far. They, in essence, are pushing a rope...with all of their might.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Vision
  • Might
  • Essence

• Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Worry
  • Head
  • Lead

• I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Write
  • I Think
  • Proceeds

• When I write the music for any of my songs, I write as a composer-lyricist in my head.

  

  Alan Menken
  • Write
  • Songs
  • Head