Elizabeth Chadwick Quotes
Sometimes a river runs on the surface, and sometimes it runs underground, but always it is present. Even if you do not see it, you can feel it.
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What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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No one person is an island.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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I just miss - I miss being anonymous.
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As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.
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It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.
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Alike and Equal are not the same.
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(Referring to the music of Anton Bruckner) 'Nightmarish hangover style' (traumverwirrten Katzenjammerstil)
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I love the flesh. I'm a pagan. 'Who are they who speak evil of the clay? The very stars are made of clay like mine!'
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I thank God for all the people whom God sent into my life, the people who gave their best so that I could learn to give my best.
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I kept trying to stress that - 'Hang on, we're be-bop guys, we're down in the alley on 57th Street. We're not in there with John Reed and 'Ten Days That Shook the World.' We'd be in the alley with (Charlie) Parker shooting up junk. That's where we were at really.
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Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.
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I think when you're in your 20s, going from adolescence to about 24, I think your life is a series of emotional storms that you have to weather. Life is more emotional at that time, and you're less equipped to deal with what life throws at you. I always think that if you can get past 24, than life really starts at that point.
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TV is the best. I wish that's how life was.
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That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.
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I have this habit to bow my head, as to look shorter, maybe as a result of an unconscious demand of not taking up so much space.
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There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
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I ain't get the opportunity to get coached until being a star.
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But now the giant heads of Plato and Socrates, each with an expression of penetrating wisdom carved on his white features, surveyed the river and the melon beds beyond.
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Sometimes a river runs on the surface, and sometimes it runs underground, but always it is present. Even if you do not see it, you can feel it.
