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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You have to go where the truth takes you, and that doesn't always take you in exactly the same place where people you speak to might want,or suspects may want. That's your ultimate obligation.
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You knowTaken out of context I mustSeem so strange.
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When you're hanging there twenty feet off the ground, surrounded by green screen, and all you've got is the other actor and the wonderful Gavin Hood shouting instructions at you as to what's going on; it's a really unique experience.
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There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people.
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Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.
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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.
