Ida Pauline Rolf Quotes
God didn't come down and tell me; I had to find it out through many years of experience. The work came first; the inspiration came later.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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Funny is an attitude.
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Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.'
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them.
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I got a big mouth.
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My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.
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Some authors have what amounts to a metaphysical approach. They admit to inspiration. Sudden and unaccountable urgencies to writecatapult them out of sleep and bed. For myself, I have never awakened to jot down an idea that was acceptable the following morning.
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
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When I'm writing obviously I have all the nostalgia in the world, I have all the emotion in the world, but then when I actually perform, I need to just perform it, and that's it. I do retain like a little bit of it because I have to, I sing and perform the songs so I have to - it's a performance of the songs - but I just have to get the right balance.
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I think mischievous people always there, ... Some kind of perfect world, that is impossible. Accept that reality. (For) those people who have genuine concern about humanity, make some effort-better than none.
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God didn't come down and tell me; I had to find it out through many years of experience. The work came first; the inspiration came later.
