Ami Vitale Quotes
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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It is certain that, because the negligent do not struggle against self, they never achieve peace of soul or do so tardily, and never possess any virtue in its fullness, while the energetic and industrious make notable advances on both fronts.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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Going 3-13 is not acceptable.
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And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.
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You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.
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I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.
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When you're doing a Broadway show, you have no free time.
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Probably the TV show I've watched the most is 'How It's Made' on the History Channel. I could watch 24 hours of 'How It's Made' and never get bored.
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If I have more creativity that I want to get out of me, I try to find other ways than pursuing solo records so much.
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There is no precedent of a civilian population, displaced by a war that their leadership started and lost, claiming a right to return to territory that they failed to conquer.
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The government does not deny it routinely spies to advance American economic advantage, which is part of its broad definition of how it protects American national security.
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ISIL is inspiring groups that already exist to rebrand themselves, but in rebranding themselves into a more radical ideology. That's what makes it dangerous.
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Tunnel vision can kill creativity.
