Curt Sachs Quotes
A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.
Quotes to Explore
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I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
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It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.
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In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.
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It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
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Just as physical exercise is a well-known and well-accepted means to improve health for anyone, regardless of age or background, so can the brain be put 'into shape' for optimal learning.
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In high school, I had a really difficult time just loving myself. It's weird; I feel like in the world we live in today, you're not supposed to be like, 'I'm beautiful,' like that's a conceited thing to say.
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I like that totally mixed up kind of eclectic group of personal props and bits of costume and I think the fun of doing that is where I was very lucky with Doctor Who.
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Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union.
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When I sing, it's different from when I speak in a very interesting way. I think that, when you're singing, a message is carried in a different way. I don't know if that emotion needs a melody.
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I don't keep up with Twitter all day long.
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As a comic and as an actor, I think you've got to be partially crazy.
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We embrace the shoestring budget. We like being limited by the constraints. It inspires creativity. I don't know what we would spend money on. We don't hire actors. We see budget constraints as a personal challenge. We're like survivalist local commercial directors.
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So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.
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Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.
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My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.
