Arthur Lismer Quotes
It is necessary that... we should believe that we are as capable of producing great art as we believe we are capable of doing great deeds.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
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I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.
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I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.
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I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.
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I would love to be an amazing singer. I take voice lessons. It's good to have as a dancer - to be able to sing and act, too, because for a Broadway show or musical, you have to be able to do everything.
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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
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God is only a great imaginative experience.
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A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.
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Jobs are critically important, but looking at economic change through the impact on jobs has always been a difficult way to think about economic progress.
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None of the parties want this conflict to go on.
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments
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Scilicet et fluvius qui visus maximus ei, Qui non ante aliquem majorem vidit; et ingens Arbor, homoque videtur, et omnia de genere omni Maxima quae vidit quisque, haec ingentia fingit.
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About Swami Vivekanada: I am not saying that the message of the Swami was the final word in our nationalism... But it was tremendous - something with an undying glory of its own. If you read his books, if you read his lectures, you are struck at once with his love of humanity, his patriotism, not abstract patriotism which came to us from Europe but of different nature altogether a more living thing, something which we feel within ourselves when we read his writings.
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I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.
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No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.
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You can't erase history.
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It is necessary that... we should believe that we are as capable of producing great art as we believe we are capable of doing great deeds.
