Leonard Bernstein Quotes
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing.
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It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.
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People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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In high school, I used to draw on my arms with a Sharpie. I knew I was gonna have a lot of tattoos. I'm not exactly classified as an artist, so my drawings could only go so far as I could take 'em. Now my tats are all a story: There's not one I can remember where I got a tat just to get a tat. It's all a part of me. I don't think I'm finished yet.
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir.
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
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The relationship I have to everyday life is very European. We have a different relationship with religion, with faith, with nudity, with sex, with food.
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And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight.
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Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
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Mama was a looker,Lord, how she shined.Papa was a good'n,But the jealous kind.Papa loved Mama;Mama loved men.Mama's in the graveyard;Papa's in the pen.
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I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion. Boisgeloup, winter 1934.
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Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.
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Persuasion hung upon his lips, and the elements of Logick and Rhetorick were so blended up in him, - and, withall, he had so shrewd guess at the weaknesses and passions of his respondent, - that NATURE might have stood up and said, - 'This man is eloquent.'
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My mother was a star-struck girl from a little town in Arkansas who had gone to finishing school in New York, and whose mother had given her anything she ever wanted.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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Rien ne sert de courir; il faut partir à point.
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To Bach, notes were not just sounds but the very stuff of creation.
