Carl Orff Quotes
I am often asked why I nearly always select old material, fairy tales and legends for my stage works. I do not look upon them as old, but rather as valid material. The time element disappears, and only the spiritual power remains. My entire interest is in the expression of spiritual realities. I write for the theater in order to convey a spiritual attitude.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
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There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.
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I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
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Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.
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As the highest ranking American official in the United Nations organization, I came to understand thoroughly that the national constitutional processes of the member states define the status of territories under their sovereignty.
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Everything I've written is based on something that has happened to me or something that I know a great deal about.
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The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.
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I am often asked why I nearly always select old material, fairy tales and legends for my stage works. I do not look upon them as old, but rather as valid material. The time element disappears, and only the spiritual power remains. My entire interest is in the expression of spiritual realities. I write for the theater in order to convey a spiritual attitude.
