Arturo Graf Quotes
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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I've never been on a television show as a regular before.
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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
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I love twins stories.
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Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.
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I love palm strikes because you have a longer reach. Normally, when you give a left hook and then a right straight, you are too close for the right straight. Why? Because the hook is shorter.
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The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the road, but it is, in fact, the road itself that you can't have in America without enslavement, without Jim Crow, terrorism, everything that came after that.
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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
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The people of the Sudan expect a lot from the institution of the presidency, and we should live up to their expectations.
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Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.
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I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.
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I can't be a role model. I just can't be.
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I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.
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The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.
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I find that a lot of times when family members get bronchitis or the flu or something like that, I'll kind of skate through and be really lucky and not get that sick.
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There are a million things one might do with a block of wood. But what do you think might happen if someone, just once, believed in it?
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Whatever I was going into, whether it was going to be chorus or history or astronomy or whatever, do it right. Be a professional. Don't just do a half baked job. Do everything correctly. Get down. Learn the details of what you're going to do.
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I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.
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I'm my own person. You can't generalise about people.
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Old age begins at the moment when a person has lost his ability to learn.
