Benjamin Harkarvy Quotes
So many dancers rely on some sort of magic happening on the stage. They never, for various reasons, work full out in rehearsal. That's very uncreative. They don't discover the kinds of things that add up to a remarkable performance.
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I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.
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I'll keep doing my training and I'm sure the goals will come.
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When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can we have an impact?' That's a different style of investing than a passive investor in the stock market. To me, that's how you're taking the risk out of it. You know what your capability is and how you can enhance value.
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I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'
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More and more people are finally realizing that in the heart of America, there's all this incredible music that wasn't widely heard before because it wasn't in the interest of those who feel they have to control the taste of the wider public.
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I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
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As a child, I studied violin. My sister, who's 10 years older, was the actress in the family. I was painfully shy.
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You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
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I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.
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In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.
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I'm a hopeless romantic.
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I love improvisation. It's quite exciting.
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It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.
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I'm a sucker for expertly-executed detail and surprise elements in clothing.
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Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?
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There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.
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We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.
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L'intelligence est presque inutile à celui qui ne possède qu'elle.
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You've got the North Koreans building weapons; you got the Iranians building weapons. You've got - the Pakistanis already have at least 100 nuclear weapons. Do you think there's any serious effort in this country to come to grips with that?
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Laughter and happiness is what life should be about, that’s your remedy for everything.
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A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'
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He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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Network television has been attempting to lure viewers for years with its low-interest programming only to have those viewers discover later that their brains are bankrupt.
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So many dancers rely on some sort of magic happening on the stage. They never, for various reasons, work full out in rehearsal. That's very uncreative. They don't discover the kinds of things that add up to a remarkable performance.
