Alan Menken Quotes
I've been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects that have really propelled my scores forward. I'm very proud of it.

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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I'm from Miami, I love it when we're out in the heat. When it's cold, I'm like, 'I'm never acting again,' because it's too freezing.
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The American people do not want their taxpayer dollars funding any activity that runs counter to the security of our nation or our ally Israel.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
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Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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I like the MAC Face and Body foundation. Sometimes it can't cover all my flaws, but I like it because it looks really natural and it evens out my skin tone.
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I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.
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I've always found the rain very calming.
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If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.
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As an actress you can participate, you can be a co-author, help the director. But I always wanted to be able to make the big decisions.
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The Confederations Cup is interesting. It served Spain very well to take part and then go on to win the 2010 World Cup. We knew the stadiums, the atmosphere, the conditions and also the difficulties of a tournament which simulated the World Cup format.
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Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.
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I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life.
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I don't want my kids to be like me, I don't want my daughter to date a guy like me. You know, for a guy like me success is to take care of my children to take care of their life and make 'em cushioned. I don't want them to be around people like me. You know, success for me would be that they never have the opportunity of being in the presence of someone like me.
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I'm really proud to represent both cultures, Canadian and Indian, and hopefully I'm making both countries proud as WWE champion.
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The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.
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I've been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects that have really propelled my scores forward. I'm very proud of it.