Bernard Holland Quotes
It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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I am excited to run in the community where my wife and I work, where my daughters graduated and my son attends high school, where my family goes to synagogue, and where I have spent so much time working for and with the people of South Florida.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
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I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
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A fighter, a real strong fighter, should always look dignified and calm, and I believe that any expression of aggression is an expression of weakness. A strong person will not be nervous and will not express aggression towards his opponent. He will be confident in his abilities and his training; then he will face the fight calm and balanced.
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I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.
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The story of a proud Roman soldier who is sold into slavery and must fight his way back to freedom, 'Gladiator' suggests what would happen if someone made a movie of the imminent extreme-football league and shot it as if it were a Chanel commercial.
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I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again.
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I run in the morning, lift weights in the afternoon, basketball training at night, and then lift weights again at night.
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I want to believe humanity has not forgotten how to explore.
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Everyone gets surprised because neither one of my parents play golf. Like I said in my speech, my aunt and uncle really love golf, and we visited them, and she gave me two clubs. Like people think when they don't know who my dad is, they think he's my coach.
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In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.
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I love doing impersonations of people.
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That's the kind of TV I like to watch, where you just don't know what's going to happen.
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I don't go to parties even when I'm invited. I've always been an 80-year-old woman inside. I remember going to my first school dance petrified. I just wanted to leave. Like, This is cool, but I'm ready to go home now.
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Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.
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It's just the acting side of things. It's not like music, where you can go out there and be independent. It's a bit more difficult to get out there on your own and be an actor. It takes time.
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Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.
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It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.
