Dan Morgenstern Quotes
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.
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Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.
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Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.
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My school in St. Louis is great. They basically created a program where I can do online classes and independent studies when I'm traveling. But then I still get to go home and take classes in a normal school environment.
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When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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I believe that the destructive nature of society that now threatens the existence of the entire human world has much to do with human intelligence. The way to overcome all human suffering-that also is through human intelligence.
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I love the music. I'm never, ever tired of playing it.
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True love was beyond the bars, but a facsimile of it came with no suffering at all.
