Lawrence Welk Quotes
By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
Quotes to Explore
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.
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What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'
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However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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Be who you are. Otherwise, you end up committing suicide. You end up marrying people when you shouldn't be marrying them and having terrible, secret lives.
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I think that... the age of just slapping songs into movies, that's done.
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Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.
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The balanced relation is the purest representation of universality, of the harmony and unity which are inherent characteristics of the mind.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
