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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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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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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We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
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Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.
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Security is tantamount in the world of digital currencies, and rapid growth puts the security of the entire ecosystem at risk.
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President Trump rightly points out that law enforcement is mostly made up of good people putting themselves in harm's way to protect us. He lauds the men and women in blue and often talks about the need to make it easier for the cops to do their jobs.
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As long as it served his purpose, Mr. Lincoln boldly advocated the right of Secession.
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I was absolutely obsessed with the Titanic - not the film, the actual boat. I'd draw diagrams about it and theorise that if it was built in a different way, it wouldn't have sunk.
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The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
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By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
