Billy Donovan Quotes
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Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.
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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.
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I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture.
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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.
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I haven't seen it this busy since I've been an IndyCar driver. So I think that's a great kind of thing that's happening for the IndyCar Series, in general, right now. But it's an event that I'm very proud to be part of. I love it. I can't wait to come back next year.
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Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.
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The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.
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No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
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There is no forgiveness in nature.
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The tax relief package enacted in 2001 was central to pulling the economy out of the post 9-11 recession. It's the reason we've got low unemployment and have created more than two million jobs in the last year.
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In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play.
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It is people's willingness to take personal risks and confront the powerful by daring to speak the truth, not the truth itself, that ultimately leads to change.
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Systems win! Believe in your system, and then sell it to your players.
