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.
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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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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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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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Joe and I are still very aware of the fact that we live in a country where he criticised the government and lived another day. That trumps all. To paraphrase Churchill, democracy is the worst form of government apart from all the other forms of government. You constantly have to fight for it; you have to keep your government honest.
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I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.
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Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
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Κέρδιστον εὖ φρονοῦντα μὴ φρονεῖν δοκεῖν.
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I went to a comprehensive school and didn't go to university.
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Fashion has always been a repetition of ideas, but what makes it new is the way you put it together.
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It's a great meeting place, community center, art gallery, singles bar, music venue. The record store really covers a lot of ground.
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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.
