Alan Jay Lerner Quotes
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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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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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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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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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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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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I think throughout the day; there are always lines or certain words, and I'll just keep notes in my phone. It might just be one or two words, and then that could inspire a whole song, lyrically.
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The issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should. I’ve got Greenspan’s book.... I've never been involved in Wall Street, I've never been involved in the financial stuff, the financial workings of the country, so I'd like to have somebody intimately familiar with it.
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Daniel Masters is a master of the commodities markets with over 30 years experience. His bitcoin strategy is based on the parallels he sees from the oil industry in 1999 to the current state of bitcoin.
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Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.
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With a little bit of luck, you'll never work!
