Derrick Bostrom Quotes
The Puppets continue to improvise during their shows, but it's a very different sort from back in the old days.
Quotes to Explore
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We rarely grow when we're happy, we grow when we hurt.
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All men are born equally free.
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.
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I'm not in charge of judgments in Iran. The judicial system in Iran is an independent body of its own, and it follows the laws, and it must operate according to the law.
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Death by hanging...I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months.
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I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.
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For me, there is no hope without faith. Faith is a higher good. Faith in our divinity.
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All roads lead to another road for renegades, rebels, and rogues.
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When I finally make up my mind that I want to do something, it's never been hard for me to do.
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Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.
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The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.
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I don't think it's that serious. If I feel good tomorrow and I feel like I'm not going to jeopardize missing games or hurt the team, I'll play. Otherwise, I'll sit down.
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Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.
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Somebody once said to me 'You're turning into a mini-George with your little pranks'.
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Great teachers are usually a little crazy.
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There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved to the development of ideas. Lately it has become what architecture should be, which is more fluid organization. There has not been so much 'a change' but 'a development'.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.
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I have to care and I have to be honest and have the courage to be vulnerable. If that happens, then that's the best I can do. To just be a puppet for the audience is not very courageous. Just to do whatever they say they want - because a lot of times people will hear something new that they hadn't heard before and get turned on by a new experience and will want to hear more of that.
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My goal was to show that even if people work in a garage or a supermarket, they have very funny things to say. We never hear their voices.
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The Puppets continue to improvise during their shows, but it's a very different sort from back in the old days.
