P. T. Barnum Quotes
To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
Quotes to Explore
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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People would pay money to work at CNN.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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My sister is not a public person, so I don't think it's right to discuss her.
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I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.
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Doesn't love show its face when it satisfies the need of the loved one, for the loved one's sake alone?
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So every day I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth of the ideas of God, one of which was you.
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Music is something you feel, but nothing you ever touch. I wanted to affect all the senses so you can hear music and then you can touch clothes and they make you feel beautiful or they can make you feel aggressive.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
