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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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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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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To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.
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The luxury for me is that I've spent already several millions of dollars across the district getting people to know who I am... So, my name ID is really, really high.
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From the very beginning, our goal has been to establish a normal company in the Western sense.
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Strive always to be as kind, gentle and caring as possible towards all forms of sentient life.
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I watched some of Lost series. And I realized that the character they wanted me to play didn't really come in for a long time. It would have just been the wrong thing for me to do.
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My own mind is my own church.
