George L. Carlson Quotes
Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content.
George L. Carlson
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
Salma Hayek
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I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That's what I see. That's the America I know!
Barack Obama
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I don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans.
Oksana Baiul
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
Taylor Wilson
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Cricket has become more popular, not me... When the game grows, those who've played it also 'grow.'
Kapil Dev
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
Daniel Barenboim
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I had done another show called 'United States of Cars,' which was a pilot that didn't get picked up. And they said, 'You know, we're doing 'Top Gear,' and would you like to meet the guys?' It was the wild - most wild audition I ever had because I never went to a studio or a producer's office.
Adam Ferrara
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
Calvin Peete
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As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future... A lot of it is a new awareness of time and life and the wheel of fortune crushing you and lifting you and crushing you and lifting you.
Feist
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As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
M. Stanton Evans
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I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.
Flea
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
Sam Kinison
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We had a segment called Tampon Tuesdays that I was very proud of; that was hilarious because there are a lot of women's issues out there that a lot of people don't know about because they're not women, and they don't have to go through them.
Larry Wilmore
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When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute.
Ian Anderson
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Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.
Vidal Sassoon
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Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.
Carlos Santana
Santana
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Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant.
Taylor Dayne
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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What's more important to 'SNL': comedy or buzz? To the writers, players and guest hosts, it's probably the former; to Lorne Michaels and the suits at NBC, it's ultimately probably the latter.
Rachel Sklar
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After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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You should do what you enjoy doing, what brings you passion. As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
J. Michael Straczynski
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India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
Yusuf Hamied
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Positive emotional energy is the key to health, happiness and wellbeing. The more positive you are, the better your life will be in every area.
Brian Tracy
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Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content.
George L. Carlson
