Carl L. Becker (Carl Lotus Becker) Quotes
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
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For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
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When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.
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Without trust, you have nothing: trust is so important to me.
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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
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It's not my ambition to be a big star.
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There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis.
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I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar.
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Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
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I used to work for a catering company - I waitressed for Harry Winston events. I remember being so hungry, I would eat when I was supposed to be catering to other people.
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When I'm not working, I like to play golf.
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Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.
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The artists is responsible for his history and his nature, his history is part of his nature.
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Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.
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All is interrelated. Heaven and earth, air and water. All are but one thing; not four, not two and not three, but one. Where they are not together, there is only an incomplete piece.
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A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.
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My kids grew up here. My son and daughter both went to Notre Dame.
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'The Dictator' - well, that was just a comedy, and I suppose the morality was incidental. It was just something to try and make people laugh rather than being a serious thing.
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I don't really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection.
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If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.
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Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.
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My own mind is my own church.
