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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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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And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs.
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In my head, I actually think my songs are pop songs. I think, 'Damn, that's a pop song!' I can practice in front of the mirror with my hairbrush for as long as I want to. But when it finally comes out, it sounds avant-garde to people.
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We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.
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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
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The greatest tragedy is a life lived and died without knowing Father God intimately and experiencing His love personally.
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True love was beyond the bars, but a facsimile of it came with no suffering at all.
