Raymond Cruz Quotes
I became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance.
Quotes to Explore
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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I have vitamins I intend to take to be a better person. I even have a pillbox for them to remind myself to be healthier. But will I take them? Definitely not.
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It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.
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I'm very particular about the kind of music that I record and sing, and it would be the same way about the kind of movies that I would do.
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I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.
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God…is the center of all selves.
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All your hopes, dreams, goals and aspirations are amenable to hard work.
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Words can be applied as one might put on a scent, such as perfume. Some scents are so wonderful and others are sickening... titles can be the same.
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After that it took me a little bit to get back on track.
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Right now my taste is going more for things that are organic where the people are using all the sonic possibilities in interesting ways.
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How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?
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Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.
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NOTHING is worth hurting yourself over. NOTHING is worth taking your life over, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!
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It need not discourage us if we are full of doubts. Healthy questions keep faith dynamic. In fact, unless we start with doubts we cannot have a deep-rooted faith. One who believes lightly and unthinkingly has not much of a belief. One who has a faith which is not to be shaken has won it through blood and tears-has worked his or her way from doubt to truth as one who reaches a clearing through a thicket of brambles and thorns.
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If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax?
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When somebody says the best thing you can do is be tough, the best thing you can do is use your brute force, then we're selling ourselves short.
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Love me, love my dog.
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I have a side of me that doesn't care. I really enjoy physical comedy, thinking of an idea and pitching it to the director.
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I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.
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But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.
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In real life, I always look at people and how they walk, or how they carry themselves. I think about the body a lot, in performance.
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I became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance.
