Alan Menken Quotes
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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All love is unrequited. All of it.
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While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.
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Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.
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I go for drives in the Flint Hills, which is the setting for 'The Virgin of Small Plains'.
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My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club.
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I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles.Who will rule,Who will lead,Who will define,refine,confine,design,Who will dominate.All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles, And mostare no more intellectualthan two ramsknocking their heads together.
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Eventing is way too dangerous. People get killed every year doing cross-country.
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The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.
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I did once shatter a chandelier. I was singing with my college choir in Wales. I was the soloist and I hit the high note and there was this massive bang and all this glass came down from the ceiling. I'd like that to be my party trick if I can perfect it.
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It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
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Music can be witty, but it's not funny unless it's conceptually funny.
