Warren MacKenzie Quotes
Robert von Neumann taught painting, and when I finally got into a painting class of his, he reacted in much the same way.
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Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
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I followed my instincts; I followed my intuition, and it paid off.
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Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking.
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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.
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I hate the word sexy.
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Millions of animals are euthanized every year because shelters can't find homes for them. Buying animals from pet stores also tends to support puppy and cat mills, many of which have deplorable conditions for animals, which shouldn't be tolerated.
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Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.
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If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
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We always get up about 5:30, and George gets up and goes in and gets the coffee and brings it to me, and that's been our ritual since we got married. And we read the newspapers in bed and drink coffee for about an hour probably, read our briefing papers.
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I don't know if it's changing already with 'Joanne,' but my intention is to bring people together that don't know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That's what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.
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The fight scenes are pretty easy and come pretty naturally for me, to be honest.
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When a show's already established, and a director comes to set, it can be quite the intimidating experience.
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People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.
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There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.
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Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.
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Usually when a song comes to me, I don't ask a lot of questions; I hear something, and I just let it out in song. It's like making a salad. Everything I hear, and everything I am, I mix together in a different way in each song.
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In painting it is the forming of the image.
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Robert von Neumann taught painting, and when I finally got into a painting class of his, he reacted in much the same way.
