Ernest L. Boyer Quotes
Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.
Quotes to Explore
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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Being evil is easy.
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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
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Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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I'm evangelical.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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A lot of the factories that had been the bedrock of many small cities were being shut down, which led me to investigate what I'm calling the 'de-industrial revolution.'
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I have a real passion for driving. Earlier on in my life I wanted to be a race car driver. But I don't pay an extortionate amount of money for cars. I'm pretty frugal.
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What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?
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The direction for my music is heaven, of course. We gear all things to the realm of heaven - which is the mind, the organized mind.
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Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.
