Alan Jay Lerner Quotes
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.
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I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.
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Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
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In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.
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You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.
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The truth is, I'm not body confident.
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I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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The project of Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' is exactly that: to assert the beautiful, bountiful, chaotic complexity of one black American male. And, by extension, all black American males.
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The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.
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There was a big difference between Ron Paul and me when it came to the 'no.' His 'no' was philosophical. It was reasoned. It was right. My 'no' actually put a stop to legislation. It cut spending. Mine carried further than just no.
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Stevie Wonder makes my heart happy and is my spirit animal. That is all.
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On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century Latin edition of a work written in Latin by a German Monk toward the end of the fourteenth century...First of all, what style should I employ?
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With a little bit of luck, you'll never work!
