Benedetto Croce Quotes
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Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
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Whenever you're going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.
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It is possible in this world to be pretty and funny and successful all at the same time.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go for service and supplies before heading further out.
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The horror genre is vast and full of brilliance. Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Herman Melville, the book of Esther. I'll happily join that list.
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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
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There is no fact-checking on tertiary celebrities. You can say whatever you'd like, and it will just rise up again.
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
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I don't want to read a book that's depressing.
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I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses.
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A fantastic actor in a scene that's just closed off will be good. But when working with a director who knows little tricks - correct music, slowly pushing in - that stunning performance will somehow become even better. I've always seen it as a symbiotic relationship.
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If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show as huge, its monstrous defects, things even minimal in between some scenes and their possible perfection. It's not the sun with spots; it's a broken greek statue.
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I think they can co-exist. You don't have to put one down for another. I've been bitten by the acting bug, and where it takes me, it won't take away from the music.
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This is a mission and a vision to do good as well as doing well.
