Leon Kass Quotes
Could technology, understood as the disposition and activity of mastery, turn out to be a stumbling block in the path of the master himself?
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
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Any club is important. All Latin music movements are born in clubs. There is no better research than going to a club. If your music works, it will bounce up.
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True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
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When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'
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I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.
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I feel people care so much about their appearance - which is important, and I do still care about my appearance, but not that much. There's far more to life than that.
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I'm living my life and I found a woman who I love.
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The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.
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Some lucky people can be funny without half trying because they actually look funny, because acting funny is in their bones - fun as funny, not funny as crude slapstick.
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My beliefs encompass all religions. But I never show my religious inclination in my films. My characters have dark sides; they aren't the god-fearing characters. It wasn't a conscious decision. I'm a very lazy and emotional person who connects with the common man.
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Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.
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I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.
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'Field of Dreams.' Definitely one of the best baseball films of all time. When Kevin Costner spoke to his dad, and his dad answered, I, um, I mean a lot of guys I know couldn't help crying.
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I am persuaded that the chief reason why we do not enjoy religion is that we do not try to enjoy it.
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It was granted to me alone to discover all the new phenomena in the sky and nothing to anybody else. This is the truth which neither envy nor malice can supress.
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Could technology, understood as the disposition and activity of mastery, turn out to be a stumbling block in the path of the master himself?
